engañaban
[ẽŋgaˈɲaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“engañaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,524 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,524
- 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 engañar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-enganaban · engañaban · Spanish
engañaban · rank #99,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,524
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH enfocaban
Nearest frequency peer: enfocaban (-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 “engañaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- 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
- enmarañada
enmarañada
474 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “engañaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engañaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋgaˈɲaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “engañaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
engañaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,524 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽŋgaˈɲaβ̞ãn]. 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 engañar.".
engañaban has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is engañaban, spelled E-N-G-A-Ñ-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de engañar.
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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