ordenaban
[oɾð̞eˈnaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“ordenaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,610 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,610
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
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 ordenar o de ordenarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ordenaban · ordenaban · Spanish
ordenaban · rank #76,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,610
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH organicemos
Nearest frequency peer: organicemos (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “ordenaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- oligopolios
oligopolios
23,394 corpus weight
- ondo
ondo
23,393 corpus weight
- ordenaban
ordenaban
23,391 corpus weight
- organicemos
organicemos
23,390 corpus weight
- orinan
orinan
23,389 corpus weight
- oscurecida
oscurecida
23,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ordenaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordenaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oɾð̞eˈnaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ordenaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ordenaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,610 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [oɾð̞eˈnaβ̞ãn]. 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 ordenar o de ordenarse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ordenaban in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ordenaban, spelled O-R-D-E-N-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ordenar o de ordenarse.
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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