contaminan
[kõn̪t̪aˈminãn]
The verdict
“contaminan” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #35,960. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,960
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contaminar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contaminan · contaminan · Spanish
contaminan · rank #35,960 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,960
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH consultadas
Nearest frequency peer: consultadas (-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 “contaminan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- condene
condene
64,045 corpus weight
- conference
conference
64,044 corpus weight
- consultadas
consultadas
64,042 corpus weight
- contaminan
contaminan
64,041 corpus weight
- contiguo
contiguo
64,039 corpus weight
- contingenci…
contingencias
64,038 corpus weight
What this shows “contaminan” 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 | contaminan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪aˈminãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “contaminan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contaminan (IPA [kõn̪t̪aˈminãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,960 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contaminar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contaminan, with forms such as "ccontaminan", "cnotaminan", and "conatminan". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "contaminar", "contaminando", "contamina", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is contaminan, spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contaminar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontaminan
- cnotaminan
- conatminan
- conntaminan
- contaimnan
- contamiann
- contaminann
- contaminnan
- contamminan
- contamnian
- contmainan
- conttaminan
- cotnaminan
- ocntaminan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contaminan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "contaminan", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).