importando

/[ĩmpoɾˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#32,704

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

importando is aSpanishverb. It means: Gerundio de importar. Pronounced [ĩmpoɾˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]. Often confused with important and importante.

Key facts for importando
PropertyValue
Headwordimportando
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ĩmpoɾˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]
Letters10
Frequency rank#32,704
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of importando in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for importando is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmpoɾˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,704 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gerundio de importar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for importando, with forms such as "immportando", "imoprtando", and "imporatndo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "important", "importante", "importan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is importando, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gerundio de importar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: immportando,imoprtando,imporatndo,imporrtando,importadno,importanddo,importanndo,importanod,importnado,importtando,impotrando,impportando,improtando,ipmortando,miportando

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for importando

Misspelling Variants of "importando"

immportando11imoprtando10imporatndo10imporrtando11importadno10importanddo11importanndo11importanod10
Misspelling Variants of "importando"

Frequency rank: #32,704 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "importando"?
"importando" is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmpoɾˈt̪ãn̪d̪o].
What does "importando" mean?
As a verb, "importando" means: Gerundio de importar.
What words are commonly confused with "importando"?
"importando" is commonly confused with "important", "importante", "importan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "importando"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "importando" is [ĩmpoɾˈt̪ãn̪d̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "importando" come from?
"importando" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.