formaban
[foɾˈmaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“formaban” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,157
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- 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 formar o de formarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-formaban · formaban · Spanish
formaban · rank #12,157 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH flujos
Nearest frequency peer: flujos (-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 “formaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- extraordina…
extraordinarias
87,848 corpus weight
- feas
feas
87,847 corpus weight
- flujos
flujos
87,845 corpus weight
- formaban
formaban
87,844 corpus weight
- fotógrafos
fotógrafos
87,843 corpus weight
- franquista
franquista
87,842 corpus weight
What this shows “formaban” 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 | formaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [foɾˈmaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “formaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around formaban (IPA [foɾˈmaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,157 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de formar o de formarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for formaban, with forms such as "fformaban", "fomraban", and "foramban". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "forman", "formada", "formara", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 formaban, spelled F-O-R-M-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de formar o de formarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformaban
- fomraban
- foramban
- formaabn
- formabann
- formabban
- formabna
- formavan
- formbaan
- formmaban
- forrmaban
- fromaban
- ofrmaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formaban - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).