habitaban
[aβ̞iˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“habitaban” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,393
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- 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 habitar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-habitaban · habitaban · Spanish
habitaban · rank #28,393 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,393
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH Guadalquivir
Nearest frequency peer: Guadalquivir (-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 “habitaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- gonna
gonna
71,612 corpus weight
- Guadalquivir
Guadalquivir
71,609 corpus weight
- habitaban
habitaban
71,608 corpus weight
- hablarán
hablarán
71,607 corpus weight
- hale
hale
71,606 corpus weight
- hectárea
hectárea
71,604 corpus weight
What this shows “habitaban” 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 | habitaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aβ̞iˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “habitaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around habitaban (IPA [aβ̞iˈt̪aβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,393 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de habitar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for habitaban, with forms such as "ahbitaban", "habbitaban", and "habiatban". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "habitan", "hablaban", "habitada", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 habitaban, spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de habitar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahbitaban
- habbitaban
- habiatban
- habitaabn
- habitabann
- habitabban
- habitabna
- habitbaan
- habittaban
- habtiaban
- haibtaban
- havitavan
- hbaitaban
- hhabitaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habitaban - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "habitaban", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).