obligan
[oˈβ̞liɣ̞ãn]
The verdict
“obligan” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,188
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de obligar o de obligarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-obligan · obligan · Spanish
obligan · rank #10,188 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,188
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH obtuvieron
Nearest frequency peer: obtuvieron (+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 “obligan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- necesitaban
necesitaban
89,816 corpus weight
- Norteamérica
Norteamérica
89,815 corpus weight
- obligan
obligan
89,813 corpus weight
- obtuvieron
obtuvieron
89,812 corpus weight
- ofensivo
ofensivo
89,811 corpus weight
- ordinario
ordinario
89,810 corpus weight
What this shows “obligan” 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 | obligan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈβ̞liɣ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “obligan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around obligan (IPA [oˈβ̞liɣ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,188 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de obligar o de obligarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligan, with forms such as "boligan", "obbligan", and "obilgan". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "oigan", "obligo", "obligar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is obligan, spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de obligar o de obligarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligan
- obbligan
- obilgan
- oblgian
- obliagn
- obligann
- obliggan
- obligna
- oblligan
- olbigan
- ovligan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligan - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).