personificaba

[peɾsonifiˈkaβ̞a]

/[peɾsonifiˈkaβ̞a]/ verb

The verdict

“personificaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,795 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,795
frequency rank, Spanish
6,028
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de personificar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-personificaba · personificaba · Spanish

personificaba · rank #98,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,795
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,028
  • PHOTO-FINISH persecutoria

Nearest frequency peer: persecutoria (-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 “personificaba”

Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “personificaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for personificaba
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonificaba
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[peɾsonifiˈkaβ̞a]
Letters13
Frequency rank#98,795
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “personificaba” en español

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).personificabacae en esta cola de rareza:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. Vecinos raros de la misma franja: “persecutoria” (#98,794), “perturben” (#98,796), “permisivos” (#98,793). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “personificaba” va en #98,795. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

personificaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,795 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [peɾsonifiˈkaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for personificaba, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is personificaba, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-I-F-I-C-A-B-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de personificar.
  2. 2
    Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de personificar.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personificaba"?
"personificaba" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-I-F-I-C-A-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is [peɾsonifiˈkaβ̞a].
What does "personificaba" mean?
As a verb, "personificaba" means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de personificar.
How do you pronounce "personificaba"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personificaba" is [peɾsonifiˈkaβ̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personificaba" come from?
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "personificaba", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list