contaban
[kõn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“contaban” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,119
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- 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 contar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contaban · contaban · Spanish
contaban · rank #12,119 · 13 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,119
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH consciencia
Nearest frequency peer: consciencia (-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 “contaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- competentes
competentes
87,886 corpus weight
- condenada
condenada
87,885 corpus weight
- confiesa
confiesa
87,884 corpus weight
- consciencia
consciencia
87,883 corpus weight
- contaban
contaban
87,882 corpus weight
- contenedores
contenedores
87,880 corpus weight
What this shows “contaban” 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 | contaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “contaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around contaban (IPA [kõn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,119 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de contar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for contaban, with forms such as "ccontaban", "cnotaban", and "conatban". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "contará", "costaba", "contada", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is contaban, spelled C-O-N-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de contar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontaban
- cnotaban
- conatban
- conntaban
- contaabn
- contabann
- contabban
- contabna
- contavan
- contbaan
- conttaban
- cotnaban
- ocntaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contaban - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).