perciben
[peɾˈsiβ̞ẽn]
The verdict
“perciben” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,912
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de percibir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-perciben · perciben · Spanish
perciben · rank #14,912 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,912
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pegada
Nearest frequency peer: pegada (-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 “perciben”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pasivos
pasivos
85,092 corpus weight
- patología
patología
85,091 corpus weight
- pegada
pegada
85,090 corpus weight
- perciben
perciben
85,089 corpus weight
- persiguiendo
persiguiendo
85,088 corpus weight
- picada
picada
85,087 corpus weight
What this shows “perciben” 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 | perciben |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peɾˈsiβ̞ẽn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “perciben”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around perciben (IPA [peɾˈsiβ̞ẽn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,912 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de percibir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for perciben, with forms such as "eprciben", "pecriben", and "percbien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "percibo", "permiten", "percibir", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is perciben, spelled P-E-R-C-I-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de percibir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprciben
- pecriben
- percbien
- percciben
- percibben
- percibenn
- percibne
- perciebn
- perciven
- pericben
- perrciben
- persiben
- pperciben
- preciben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perciben - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "perciben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).