oían
[oˈiãn]
The verdict
“oían” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,975) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,975
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- 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 oír.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oian · oían · Spanish
oían · rank #47,975 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,975
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH otorguen
Nearest frequency peer: otorguen (-2 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “oían”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Otamendi
Otamendi
52,030 corpus weight
- otomanos
otomanos
52,029 corpus weight
- otorguen
otorguen
52,028 corpus weight
- oían
oían
52,026 corpus weight
- pacta
pacta
52,024 corpus weight
- paraderos
paraderos
52,023 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oían” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | oían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈiãn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oían”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oían is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "oír", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [oˈiãn]. Frequency #47,975 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for oían, with forms such as "oaín", "oíann", and "oína". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "oír", "ola", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 oían, spelled O-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oaín
- oíann
- oína
- íoan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oían - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).