contienen
[kõn̪ˈt̪jenẽn]
The verdict
“contienen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,479
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- 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 contener o de contenerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contienen · contienen · Spanish
contienen · rank #5,479 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,479
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH constituyen
Nearest frequency peer: constituyen (-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 “contienen”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- consejero
consejero
94,525 corpus weight
- considerados
considerados
94,524 corpus weight
- constituyen
constituyen
94,523 corpus weight
- contienen
contienen
94,522 corpus weight
- contraste
contraste
94,521 corpus weight
- convencer
convencer
94,520 corpus weight
What this shows “contienen” 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 | contienen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪jenẽn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “contienen”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around contienen (IPA [kõn̪ˈt̪jenẽn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,479 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contener o de contenerse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for contienen, with forms such as "ccontienen", "cnotienen", and "conitenen". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "conviene", "continúen", "convienen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is contienen, spelled C-O-N-T-I-E-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de contener o de contenerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontienen
- cnotienen
- conitenen
- conntienen
- conteinen
- contieenn
- contienenn
- contiennen
- contineen
- conttienen
- cotnienen
- ocntienen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contienen - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contienen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).