postulan
[posˈt̪ulãn]
The verdict
“postulan” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #41,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,016
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 12
- 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 postular.
Corpus desk
Index ES-postulan · postulan · Spanish
postulan · rank #41,016 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,016
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH posesivo
Nearest frequency peer: posesivo (-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 “postulan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- poligamia
poligamia
58,989 corpus weight
- Popeye
Popeye
58,988 corpus weight
- portazo
portazo
58,987 corpus weight
- posesivo
posesivo
58,986 corpus weight
- postulan
postulan
58,985 corpus weight
- preparatori…
preparatorias
58,981 corpus weight
What this shows “postulan” 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 | postulan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [posˈt̪ulãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “postulan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around postulan (IPA [posˈt̪ulãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,016 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de postular.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for postulan, with forms such as "opstulan", "posstulan", and "postluan". 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, "postura", "póstuma", "posturas", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is postulan, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de postular.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstulan
- posstulan
- postluan
- posttulan
- postualn
- postulann
- postullan
- postulna
- posutlan
- potsulan
- ppostulan
- psotulan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postulan - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "postulan", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).