importaba
[ĩmpoɾˈt̪aβ̞a]
The verdict
“importaba” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,818
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de importar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-importaba · importaba · Spanish
importaba · rank #8,818 · 14 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,818
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH ilusiones
Nearest frequency peer: ilusiones (-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 “importaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- homicidios
homicidios
91,186 corpus weight
- ideológica
ideológica
91,185 corpus weight
- ilusiones
ilusiones
91,184 corpus weight
- importaba
importaba
91,183 corpus weight
- indemnizaci…
indemnización
91,182 corpus weight
- indicador
indicador
91,181 corpus weight
What this shows “importaba” 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 | importaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩmpoɾˈt̪aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “importaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around importaba (IPA [ĩmpoɾˈt̪aβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,818 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for importaba, with forms such as "immportaba", "imoprtaba", and "imporatba". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "importar", "importan", "importas", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is importaba, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de importar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de importar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immportaba
- imoprtaba
- imporatba
- imporrtaba
- importaab
- importabba
- importava
- importbaa
- importtaba
- impotraba
- impportaba
- improtaba
- ipmortaba
- miportaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of importaba - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).