dirigían
[d̪iɾiˈxiãn]
The verdict
“dirigían” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,994
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- 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 dirigir o de dirigirse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dirigian · dirigían · Spanish
dirigían · rank #19,994 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigimos
Nearest frequency peer: dirigimos (-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 “dirigían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- din
din
80,010 corpus weight
- dineros
dineros
80,009 corpus weight
- dirigimos
dirigimos
80,008 corpus weight
- dirigían
dirigían
80,007 corpus weight
- dirija
dirija
80,006 corpus weight
- disculparse
disculparse
80,005 corpus weight
What this shows “dirigían” 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 | dirigían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪iɾiˈxiãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “dirigían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dirigían (IPA [d̪iɾiˈxiãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,994 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de dirigir o de dirigirse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dirigían, with forms such as "ddirigían", "diirgían", and "dirgiían". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "dirigir", "dirigió", "dirijan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is dirigían, spelled D-I-R-I-G-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de dirigir o de dirigirse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirigían
- diirgían
- dirgiían
- dirigaín
- diriggían
- dirigíann
- dirigína
- diriígan
- dirrigían
- driigían
- idrigían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dirigían - 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 "dirigían", 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).