pretendan
[pɾeˈt̪ẽn̪d̪ãn]
The verdict
“pretendan” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,350
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- 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 subjuntivo de pretender.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pretendan · pretendan · Spanish
pretendan · rank #32,350 · 14 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,350
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH presupuestari…
Nearest frequency peer: presupuestarias (-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 “pretendan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- presentarem…
presentaremos
67,656 corpus weight
- presumiendo
presumiendo
67,653 corpus weight
- presupuesta…
presupuestarias
67,652 corpus weight
- pretendan
pretendan
67,651 corpus weight
- procedían
procedían
67,650 corpus weight
- prometiste
prometiste
67,649 corpus weight
What this shows “pretendan” 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 | pretendan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾeˈt̪ẽn̪d̪ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pretendan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around pretendan (IPA [pɾeˈt̪ẽn̪d̪ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,350 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pretendan, with forms such as "pertendan", "ppretendan", and "preetndan". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "pretende", "pretendo", "pretenden", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pretendan, spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de pretender.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de pretender.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pertendan
- ppretendan
- preetndan
- pretednan
- pretenadn
- pretendann
- pretenddan
- pretendna
- pretenndan
- pretnedan
- prettendan
- prretendan
- prteendan
- rpetendan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pretendan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "pretendan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).