contestaban
[kõn̪t̪esˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“contestaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,506 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,506
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
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 contestar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contestaban · contestaban · Spanish
contestaban · rank #73,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,506
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH contemporanei…
Nearest frequency peer: contemporaneidad (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “contestaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- contabas
contabas
26,498 corpus weight
- contactarem…
contactaremos
26,497 corpus weight
- contemporan…
contemporaneidad
26,496 corpus weight
- contestaban
contestaban
26,495 corpus weight
- contrabande…
contrabandear
26,494 corpus weight
- convencerá
convencerá
26,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “contestaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contestaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪esˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “contestaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
contestaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,506 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kõn̪t̪esˈt̪aβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de contestar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contestaban, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is contestaban, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de contestar.
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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