gobernaban
[goβ̞eɾˈnaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“gobernaban” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #43,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,040
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- 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 gobernar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gobernaban · gobernaban · Spanish
gobernaban · rank #43,040 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,040
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH gobernará
Nearest frequency peer: gobernará (+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 “gobernaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Giovanna
Giovanna
56,965 corpus weight
- girasoles
girasoles
56,964 corpus weight
- giratorias
giratorias
56,963 corpus weight
- gobernaban
gobernaban
56,961 corpus weight
- gobernará
gobernará
56,960 corpus weight
- gotitas
gotitas
56,959 corpus weight
What this shows “gobernaban” 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 | gobernaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [goβ̞eɾˈnaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gobernaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around gobernaban (IPA [goβ̞eɾˈnaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,040 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de gobernar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for gobernaban, with forms such as "gboernaban", "ggobernaban", and "gobbernaban". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gobernada", "gobernará", "gobernaron", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is gobernaban, spelled G-O-B-E-R-N-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de gobernar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gboernaban
- ggobernaban
- gobbernaban
- gobenraban
- goberanban
- gobernaabn
- gobernabann
- gobernabban
- gobernabna
- gobernbaan
- gobernnaban
- goberrnaban
- gobrenaban
- goebrnaban
- governavan
- ogbernaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gobernaban - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).