encendían
[ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪iãn]
The verdict
“encendían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,950 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,950
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” 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 encender o de encenderse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-encendian · encendían · Spanish
encendían · rank #81,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,950
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH encallado
Nearest frequency peer: encallado (-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 “encendían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- emprendimos
emprendimos
18,054 corpus weight
- empujes
empujes
18,053 corpus weight
- encallado
encallado
18,052 corpus weight
- encendían
encendían
18,051 corpus weight
- encogerse
encogerse
18,050 corpus weight
- endurecida
endurecida
18,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “encendían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encendían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪iãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “encendían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
encendían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,950 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪iãn]. 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 encender o de encenderse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for encendían, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is encendían, spelled E-N-C-E-N-D-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 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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