pescaban
[pesˈkaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“pescaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,233 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,233
- 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 pescar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pescaban · pescaban · Spanish
pescaban · rank #91,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,233
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH personality
Nearest frequency peer: personality (-2 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 “pescaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- perdedoras
perdedoras
8,774 corpus weight
- perezosas
perezosas
8,773 corpus weight
- permitiéndo…
permitiéndose
8,771 corpus weight
- personality
personality
8,770 corpus weight
- pescaban
pescaban
8,768 corpus weight
- piara
piara
8,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pescaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pescaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pesˈkaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pescaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pescaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,233 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pesˈkaβ̞ãn]. 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 pescar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pescaban, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is pescaban, spelled P-E-S-C-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pescar.
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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