gustaban
[gusˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“gustaban” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,606
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- 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 gustar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gustaban · gustaban · Spanish
gustaban · rank #14,606 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,606
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guarnición
Nearest frequency peer: guarnición (-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 “gustaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- gorro
gorro
85,398 corpus weight
- guardas
guardas
85,397 corpus weight
- guarnición
guarnición
85,396 corpus weight
- gustaban
gustaban
85,395 corpus weight
- hablará
hablará
85,393 corpus weight
- hacha
hacha
85,392 corpus weight
What this shows “gustaban” 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 | gustaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [gusˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gustaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around gustaban (IPA [gusˈt̪aβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,606 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de gustar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gustaban, with forms such as "ggustaban", "gsutaban", and "gusatban". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gustan", "gustará", "gustaron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is gustaban, spelled G-U-S-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de gustar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggustaban
- gsutaban
- gusatban
- gusstaban
- gustaabn
- gustabann
- gustabban
- gustabna
- gustavan
- gustbaan
- gusttaban
- gutsaban
- ugstaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gustaban - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).