merecían
[meɾeˈsiãn]
The verdict
“merecían” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,864
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- 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 merecer o de merecerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-merecian · merecían · Spanish
merecían · rank #23,864 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mercante
Nearest frequency peer: mercante (-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 “merecían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Mella
Mella
76,140 corpus weight
- mendigos
mendigos
76,139 corpus weight
- mercante
mercante
76,138 corpus weight
- merecían
merecían
76,137 corpus weight
- metiste
metiste
76,136 corpus weight
- metáforas
metáforas
76,135 corpus weight
What this shows “merecían” 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 | merecían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [meɾeˈsiãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “merecían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around merecían (IPA [meɾeˈsiãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,864 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de merecer o de merecerse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for merecían, with forms such as "emrecían", "meercían", and "merceían". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "mereció", "merecido", "merecida", 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 merecían, spelled M-E-R-E-C-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de merecer o de merecerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrecían
- meercían
- merceían
- merecaín
- mereccían
- merecíann
- merecína
- mereícan
- merrecían
- mmerecían
- mreecían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merecían - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).