eran
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#318
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
eran is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ser. Pronounced [ˈeɾãn]. It ranks #318 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with esa and Eva.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eran |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈeɾãn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for eran is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeɾãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #318 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ser.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for eran, with forms such as "earn", "erann", and "erna". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "esa", "Eva", "eta", 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 eran, spelled E-R-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: earn,erann,erna,erran,rean
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for eran
Misspelling Variants of "eran"
Frequency rank: #318 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Spanish index: