llegaban
[ʝeˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“llegaban” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,850
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- 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 llegar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-llegaban · llegaban · Spanish
llegaban · rank #9,850 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lesbianas
Nearest frequency peer: lesbianas (-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 “llegaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- jurídicas
jurídicas
90,154 corpus weight
- kilómetro
kilómetro
90,153 corpus weight
- lesbianas
lesbianas
90,152 corpus weight
- llegaban
llegaban
90,151 corpus weight
- llegaría
llegaría
90,150 corpus weight
- lápiz
lápiz
90,148 corpus weight
What this shows “llegaban” 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 | llegaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʝeˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “llegaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around llegaban (IPA [ʝeˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,850 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de llegar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for llegaban, with forms such as "legaban", "lelgaban", and "lleagban". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "llegan", "llegada", "llevaba", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is llegaban, spelled L-L-E-G-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de llegar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legaban
- lelgaban
- lleagban
- llegaabn
- llegabann
- llegabban
- llegabna
- llegavan
- llegbaan
- lleggaban
- llgeaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of llegaban - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).