pretendían
[pɾet̪ẽn̪ˈd̪iãn]
The verdict
“pretendían” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,648
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
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 pretender.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pretendian · pretendían · Spanish
pretendían · rank #18,648 · 15 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,648
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH prestigiosa
Nearest frequency peer: prestigiosa (-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 “pretendían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- preocupo
preocupo
81,356 corpus weight
- presentarán
presentarán
81,355 corpus weight
- prestigiosa
prestigiosa
81,354 corpus weight
- pretendían
pretendían
81,353 corpus weight
- privación
privación
81,352 corpus weight
- proletariado
proletariado
81,351 corpus weight
What this shows “pretendían” 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 | pretendían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾet̪ẽn̪ˈd̪iãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pretendían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around pretendían (IPA [pɾet̪ẽn̪ˈd̪iãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,648 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pretender.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for pretendían, with forms such as "pertendían", "ppretendían", and "preetndían". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pretendió", "pretensión", "pretendido", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is pretendían, spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-D-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pretender.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pertendían
- ppretendían
- preetndían
- pretednían
- pretendaín
- pretenddían
- pretendíann
- pretendína
- pretenndían
- pretenídan
- pretnedían
- prettendían
- prretendían
- prteendían
- rpetendían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pretendían - 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 "pretendían", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).