explican
[eksˈplikãn]
The verdict
“explican” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,668
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de explicar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-explican · explican · Spanish
explican · rank #6,668 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH exacta
Nearest frequency peer: exacta (-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 “explican”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- estudiado
estudiado
93,336 corpus weight
- estuvimos
estuvimos
93,335 corpus weight
- exacta
exacta
93,334 corpus weight
- explican
explican
93,333 corpus weight
- exponer
exponer
93,332 corpus weight
- expuesto
expuesto
93,331 corpus weight
What this shows “explican” 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 | explican |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eksˈplikãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “explican”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around explican (IPA [eksˈplikãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,668 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de explicar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for explican, with forms such as "epxlican", "exlpican", and "expilcan". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "explicó", "explicar", "explotan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 explican, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de explicar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxlican
- exlpican
- expilcan
- explcian
- expliacn
- explicann
- expliccan
- explicna
- expllican
- expplican
- exxplican
- xeplican
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of explican - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).