procuraban
[pɾokuˈɾaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“procuraban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,971 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,971
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
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 procurar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-procuraban · procuraban · Spanish
procuraban · rank #99,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,971
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Procopio
Nearest frequency peer: Procopio (-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 “procuraban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- prevenida
prevenida
36 corpus weight
- pringaos
pringaos
34 corpus weight
- proclamándo…
proclamándose
32 corpus weight
- Procopio
Procopio
31 corpus weight
- procuraban
procuraban
30 corpus weight
- prolongaba
prolongaba
29 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “procuraban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procuraban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾokuˈɾaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “procuraban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
procuraban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,971 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pɾokuˈɾaβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de procurar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for procuraban in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 procuraban, spelled P-R-O-C-U-R-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de procurar.
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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