decidían
[d̪esiˈð̞iãn]
The verdict
“decidían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,512 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,512
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” 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 decidir o de decidirse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-decidian · decidían · Spanish
decidían · rank #55,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,512
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH dag
Nearest frequency peer: dag (-2 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 “decidían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- céntricas
céntricas
44,494 corpus weight
- dag
dag
44,491 corpus weight
- decidían
decidían
44,489 corpus weight
- deducibles
deducibles
44,487 corpus weight
- demarcacion…
demarcaciones
44,485 corpus weight
- demoliciones
demoliciones
44,484 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “decidían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decidían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esiˈð̞iãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “decidían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
decidían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,512 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esiˈð̞iãn]. 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 decidir o de decidirse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for decidían, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is decidían, spelled D-E-C-I-D-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de decidir o de decidirse.
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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