dependía
[d̪epẽn̪ˈd̪ia]
The verdict
“dependía” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,784
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de depender.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dependia · dependía · Spanish
dependía · rank #18,784 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,784
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH derivar
Nearest frequency peer: derivar (+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 “dependía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- defienda
defienda
81,219 corpus weight
- dependía
dependía
81,217 corpus weight
- derivar
derivar
81,216 corpus weight
- derogación
derogación
81,215 corpus weight
- derribado
derribado
81,214 corpus weight
- desafortuna…
desafortunado
81,213 corpus weight
What this shows “dependía” 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 | dependía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪epẽn̪ˈd̪ia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “dependía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dependía (IPA [d̪epẽn̪ˈd̪ia]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,784 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dependía, with forms such as "ddependía", "deepndía", and "depednía". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "detenía", "detendrá", "dependían", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is dependía, spelled D-E-P-E-N-D-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de depender.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de depender.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddependía
- deepndía
- depednía
- dependaí
- dependdía
- depenndía
- depenída
- depnedía
- deppendía
- dpeendía
- edpendía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dependía - 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 "dependía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).