intenten
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,647
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
intenten is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de intentar. Pronounced [ĩn̪ˈt̪ẽn̪t̪ẽn]. Often confused with intento and invente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intenten |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩn̪ˈt̪ẽn̪t̪ẽn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for intenten is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪ˈt̪ẽn̪t̪ẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,647 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for intenten, with forms such as "inetnten", "inntenten", and "intenetn". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "intento", "invente", "intentos", 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 intenten, spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de intentar.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de intentar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetnten,inntenten,intenetn,intennten,intentenn,intentne,intentten,intetnen,intneten,inttenten,itnenten,nitenten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intenten
Misspelling Variants of "intenten"
Frequency rank: #15,647 in Spanish
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