contengan
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,620
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
contengan is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de contener o de contenerse. Pronounced [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽŋgãn]. Often confused with contenta and contenía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contengan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽŋgãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contengan is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽŋgãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,620 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for contengan, with forms such as "ccontengan", "cnotengan", and "conetngan". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "contenta", "contenía", "convenga", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is contengan, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-G-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de contener o de contenerse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de contener o del imperativo negativo de contenerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontengan,cnotengan,conetngan,conntengan,contegnan,contenagn,contengann,contenggan,contengna,contenngan,contnegan,conttengan,cotnengan,ocntengan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contengan
Misspelling Variants of "contengan"
Frequency rank: #20,620 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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