operaba
[opeˈɾaβ̞a]
The verdict
“operaba” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,324
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de operar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-operaba · operaba · Spanish
operaba · rank #29,324 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH organice
Nearest frequency peer: organice (+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 “operaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Omán
Omán
70,679 corpus weight
- operaba
operaba
70,677 corpus weight
- organice
organice
70,676 corpus weight
- ot
ot
70,675 corpus weight
- otaku
otaku
70,674 corpus weight
- paraliza
paraliza
70,673 corpus weight
What this shows “operaba” 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 | operaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [opeˈɾaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “operaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around operaba (IPA [opeˈɾaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,324 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for operaba, with forms such as "oepraba", "opearba", and "operaab". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "operar", "operan", "operado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 operaba, spelled O-P-E-R-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de operar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de operar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oepraba
- opearba
- operaab
- operabba
- operava
- operbaa
- operraba
- opperaba
- opreaba
- poeraba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of operaba - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "operaba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).