explicaban
[ekspliˈkaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“explicaban” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #40,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,824
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
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 explicar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-explicaban · explicaban · Spanish
explicaban · rank #40,824 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,824
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH explicadas
Nearest frequency peer: explicadas (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “explicaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- etnográfico
etnográfico
59,181 corpus weight
- eureka
eureka
59,180 corpus weight
- excedido
excedido
59,179 corpus weight
- explicaban
explicaban
59,177 corpus weight
- explicadas
explicadas
59,176 corpus weight
- extrajudici…
extrajudiciales
59,174 corpus weight
What this shows “explicaban” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explicaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ekspliˈkaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #40,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “explicaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around explicaban (IPA [ekspliˈkaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,824 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de explicar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for explicaban, with forms such as "epxlicaban", "exlpicaban", and "expilcaban". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "explican", "explicada", "explicara", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is explicaban, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de explicar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxlicaban
- exlpicaban
- expilcaban
- explciaban
- expliacban
- explicaabn
- explicabann
- explicabban
- explicabna
- explicavan
- explicbaan
- expliccaban
- expllicaban
- expplicaban
- exxplicaban
- xeplicaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of explicaban - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).