pretendía
[pɾet̪ẽn̪ˈd̪ia]
The verdict
“pretendía” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,902
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pretender.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pretendia · pretendía · Spanish
pretendía · rank #7,902 · 13 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,902
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH power
Nearest frequency peer: power (-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 “pretendía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Piñera
Piñera
92,102 corpus weight
- planetas
planetas
92,101 corpus weight
- power
power
92,100 corpus weight
- pretendía
pretendía
92,099 corpus weight
- previos
previos
92,098 corpus weight
- primos
primos
92,097 corpus weight
What this shows “pretendía” 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 | pretendía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾet̪ẽn̪ˈd̪ia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pretendía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pretendía (IPA [pɾet̪ẽn̪ˈd̪ia]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,902 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pretendía, with forms such as "pertendía", "ppretendía", and "preetndía". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "pretendo", "pretendió", "pretendían", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 pretendía, spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-D-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pretender.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pretender.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pertendía
- ppretendía
- preetndía
- pretednía
- pretendaí
- pretenddía
- pretenndía
- pretenída
- pretnedía
- prettendía
- prretendía
- prteendía
- rpetendía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pretendía - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "pretendía", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).