padecían
[pað̞eˈsiãn]
The verdict
“padecían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,617 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,617
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” 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 padecer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-padecian · padecían · Spanish
padecían · rank #76,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,617
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH oxímoron
Nearest frequency peer: oxímoron (-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 “padecían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- oscurecida
oscurecida
23,388 corpus weight
- otomíes
otomíes
23,387 corpus weight
- oxímoron
oxímoron
23,385 corpus weight
- padecían
padecían
23,384 corpus weight
- Palazuelos
Palazuelos
23,382 corpus weight
- panales
panales
23,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “padecían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | padecían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pað̞eˈsiãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “padecían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
padecían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,617 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pað̞eˈsiãn]. 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 padecer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for padecían in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is padecían, spelled P-A-D-E-C-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de padecer.
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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