operaban
[opeˈɾaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“operaban” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,717
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- 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 operar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-operaban · operaban · Spanish
operaban · rank #36,717 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,717
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH opereta
Nearest frequency peer: opereta (+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 “operaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- obsoletas
obsoletas
63,287 corpus weight
- offshore
offshore
63,286 corpus weight
- operaban
operaban
63,284 corpus weight
- opereta
opereta
63,283 corpus weight
- organizativ…
organizativos
63,282 corpus weight
- oscilación
oscilación
63,281 corpus weight
What this shows “operaban” 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 | operaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [opeˈɾaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “operaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around operaban (IPA [opeˈɾaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,717 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de operar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for operaban, with forms such as "oepraban", "opearban", and "operaabn". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "operan", "operada", "operaron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 operaban, spelled O-P-E-R-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de operar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oepraban
- opearban
- operaabn
- operabann
- operabban
- operabna
- operavan
- operbaan
- operraban
- opperaban
- opreaban
- poeraban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of operaban - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).