enfocaban
[ẽɱfoˈkaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“enfocaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,523 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,523
- 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 enfocar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-enfocaban · enfocaban · Spanish
enfocaban · rank #99,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,523
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH engañaban
Nearest frequency peer: engañaban (+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 “enfocaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- encuadradas
encuadradas
482 corpus weight
- endulzado
endulzado
481 corpus weight
- enfocaban
enfocaban
478 corpus weight
- engañaban
engañaban
477 corpus weight
- engorrosos
engorrosos
476 corpus weight
- enloquecía
enloquecía
475 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “enfocaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfocaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽɱfoˈkaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “enfocaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
enfocaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,523 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽɱfoˈkaβ̞ãn]. 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 enfocar.".
enfocaban has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 enfocaban, spelled E-N-F-O-C-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de enfocar.
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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