construían
[kõnsˈt̪ɾwiãn]
The verdict
“construían” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #45,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,221
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- 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 construir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-construian · construían · Spanish
construían · rank #45,221 · 15 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,221
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH consensuado
Nearest frequency peer: consensuado (-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 “construían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- conformamos
conformamos
54,783 corpus weight
- conllevar
conllevar
54,782 corpus weight
- consensuado
consensuado
54,781 corpus weight
- construían
construían
54,780 corpus weight
- contemplo
contemplo
54,779 corpus weight
- contraatacar
contraatacar
54,778 corpus weight
What this shows “construían” 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 | construían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõnsˈt̪ɾwiãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “construían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around construían (IPA [kõnsˈt̪ɾwiãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,221 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de construir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for construían, with forms such as "cconstruían", "cnostruían", and "connstruían". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "construir", "construya", "construido", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is construían, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de construir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconstruían
- cnostruían
- connstruían
- consrtuían
- consstruían
- constrruían
- construaín
- construíann
- construína
- constríuan
- consttruían
- consturían
- contsruían
- cosntruían
- ocnstruían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of construían - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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 (15 here; floor ≥5).