controlaban
[kõn̪t̪ɾoˈlaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“controlaban” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #38,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,602
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- 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 controlar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-controlaban · controlaban · Spanish
controlaban · rank #38,602 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,602
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH contrastan
Nearest frequency peer: contrastan (-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 “controlaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- contemplada
contemplada
61,402 corpus weight
- contentar
contentar
61,401 corpus weight
- contrastan
contrastan
61,400 corpus weight
- controlaban
controlaban
61,399 corpus weight
- controlarse
controlarse
61,398 corpus weight
- controverti…
controvertidos
61,396 corpus weight
What this shows “controlaban” 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 | controlaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾoˈlaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “controlaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around controlaban (IPA [kõn̪t̪ɾoˈlaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,602 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de controlar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for controlaban, with forms such as "ccontrolaban", "cnotrolaban", and "conntrolaban". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "controlan", "controlada", "controladas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is controlaban, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-L-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de controlar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrolaban
- cnotrolaban
- conntrolaban
- conrtolaban
- contorlaban
- contrloaban
- controalban
- controlaabn
- controlabann
- controlabban
- controlabna
- controlavan
- controlbaan
- controllaban
- contrrolaban
- conttrolaban
- cotnrolaban
- ocntrolaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of controlaban - 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 "controlaban", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).