funcionaban
[fũnsjoˈnaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“funcionaban” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,161
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- 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 funcionar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-funcionaban · funcionaban · Spanish
funcionaban · rank #24,161 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,161
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fuman
Nearest frequency peer: fuman (-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 “funcionaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Francesca
Francesca
75,843 corpus weight
- Francesco
Francesco
75,842 corpus weight
- fuman
fuman
75,841 corpus weight
- funcionaban
funcionaban
75,840 corpus weight
- fábula
fábula
75,839 corpus weight
- galés
galés
75,838 corpus weight
What this shows “funcionaban” 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 | funcionaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fũnsjoˈnaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “funcionaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around funcionaban (IPA [fũnsjoˈnaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,161 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de funcionar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for funcionaban, with forms such as "ffuncionaban", "fnucionaban", and "fucnionaban". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "funcionan", "funcionará", "funcionaron", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is funcionaban, spelled F-U-N-C-I-O-N-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de funcionar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffuncionaban
- fnucionaban
- fucnionaban
- funccionaban
- funcinoaban
- funcioanban
- funcionaabn
- funcionabann
- funcionabban
- funcionabna
- funcionavan
- funcionbaan
- funcionnaban
- funcoinaban
- funiconaban
- funncionaban
- funsionaban
- ufncionaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of funcionaban - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "funcionaban", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).