pensabas
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,343
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
pensabas is aSpanishverb. It means: Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pensar. Pronounced [pẽnˈsaβ̞as]. Often confused with pensas and pesaba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pensabas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pẽnˈsaβ̞as] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pensabas is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pẽnˈsaβ̞as]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,343 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pensar.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for pensabas, with forms such as "epnsabas", "penasbas", and "pennsabas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "pensas", "pesaba", "pesadas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is pensabas, spelled P-E-N-S-A-B-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pensar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epnsabas,penasbas,pennsabas,pensaabs,pensabass,pensabbas,pensabsa,pensavas,pensbaas,penssabas,pesnabas,pnesabas,ppensabas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pensabas
Misspelling Variants of "pensabas"
Frequency rank: #18,343 in Spanish
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