encendía
[ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪ia]
The verdict
“encendía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,995 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,995
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de encender o de encenderse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-encendia · encendía · Spanish
encendía · rank #59,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,995
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH encendí
Nearest frequency peer: encendí (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “encendía”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- encantamien…
encantamientos
40,009 corpus weight
- encarnizada
encarnizada
40,008 corpus weight
- encendí
encendí
40,007 corpus weight
- encendía
encendía
40,006 corpus weight
- encontrabas
encontrabas
40,005 corpus weight
- enema
enema
40,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “encendía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encendía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪ia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “encendía” en español
Rare enough to double-check
encendía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,995 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪ia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for encendía in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is encendía, spelled E-N-C-E-N-D-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de encender o de encenderse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de encender o de encenderse.
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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