navegaban
[naβ̞eˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“navegaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,026 among 7,828 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,026
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,828
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de navegar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navegaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [naβ̞eˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “navegaban” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
navegaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,026 among 7,828 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [naβ̞eˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de navegar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for navegaban, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is navegaban, spelled N-A-V-E-G-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de navegar.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-A-V-E-G-A-B-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.