permanecían
[peɾmaneˈsiãn]
The verdict
“permanecían” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,956
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- 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 permanecer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-permanecian · permanecían · Spanish
permanecían · rank #26,956 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,956
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pervertido
Nearest frequency peer: pervertido (+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 “permanecían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- parcialidad
parcialidad
73,048 corpus weight
- pedacitos
pedacitos
73,047 corpus weight
- permanecían
permanecían
73,045 corpus weight
- pervertido
pervertido
73,044 corpus weight
- pezón
pezón
73,043 corpus weight
- Pinilla
Pinilla
73,042 corpus weight
What this shows “permanecían” 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 | permanecían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peɾmaneˈsiãn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “permanecían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around permanecían (IPA [peɾmaneˈsiãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,956 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de permanecer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for permanecían, with forms such as "eprmanecían", "pemranecían", and "peramnecían". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "permaneció", "permanencia", "permanecido", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is permanecían, spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-E-C-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de permanecer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprmanecían
- pemranecían
- peramnecían
- permaencían
- permanceían
- permanecaín
- permaneccían
- permanecíann
- permanecína
- permaneícan
- permannecían
- permmanecían
- permnaecían
- perrmanecían
- ppermanecían
- premanecían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permanecían - 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 "permanecían", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).