empleaba
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,105
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
empleaba is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de emplear o de emplearse. Pronounced [ẽmpleˈaβ̞a]. Often confused with emplear and emplean.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empleaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmpleˈaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for empleaba is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmpleˈaβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,105 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for empleaba, with forms such as "emlpeaba", "emmpleaba", and "empelaba". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "emplear", "emplean", "empleado", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is empleaba, spelled E-M-P-L-E-A-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de emplear o de emplearse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de emplear o de emplearse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emlpeaba,emmpleaba,empelaba,emplaeba,empleaab,empleabba,empleava,emplebaa,emplleaba,emppleaba,epmleaba,mepleaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empleaba
Misspelling Variants of "empleaba"
Frequency rank: #33,105 in Spanish
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