preguntabas
[pɾeɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aβ̞as]
The verdict
“preguntabas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,141 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,141
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de preguntar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-preguntabas · preguntabas · Spanish
preguntabas · rank #55,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,141
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH precolombina
Nearest frequency peer: precolombina (-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 “preguntabas”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- potencian
potencian
44,863 corpus weight
- practicados
practicados
44,862 corpus weight
- precolombina
precolombina
44,861 corpus weight
- preguntabas
preguntabas
44,860 corpus weight
- presumía
presumía
44,859 corpus weight
- privatizado
privatizado
44,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “preguntabas” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preguntabas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾeɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aβ̞as] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “preguntabas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
preguntabas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,141 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pɾeɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aβ̞as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de preguntar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for preguntabas in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 preguntabas, spelled P-R-E-G-U-N-T-A-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de preguntar.
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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