comenzaban
[komẽnˈsaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“comenzaban” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,364
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de comenzar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-comenzaban · comenzaban · Spanish
comenzaban · rank #26,364 · 16 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,364
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH colorados
Nearest frequency peer: colorados (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “comenzaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Coll
Coll
73,639 corpus weight
- colorados
colorados
73,638 corpus weight
- comenzaban
comenzaban
73,637 corpus weight
- comestible
comestible
73,636 corpus weight
- compilado
compilado
73,634 corpus weight
- conceden
conceden
73,633 corpus weight
What this shows “comenzaban” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comenzaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [komẽnˈsaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “comenzaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around comenzaban (IPA [komẽnˈsaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,364 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de comenzar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for comenzaban, with forms such as "ccomenzaban", "cmoenzaban", and "coemnzaban". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "comenzará", "comenzada", "comenzaron", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is comenzaban, spelled C-O-M-E-N-Z-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de comenzar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomenzaban
- cmoenzaban
- coemnzaban
- comenazban
- comennzaban
- comenzaabn
- comenzabann
- comenzabban
- comenzabna
- comenzavan
- comenzbaan
- comenzzaban
- comeznaban
- commenzaban
- comnezaban
- ocmenzaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comenzaban - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comenzaban", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).