protegían
[pɾot̪eˈxiãn]
The verdict
“protegían” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #43,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,205
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- 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 proteger.
Corpus desk
Index ES-protegian · protegían · Spanish
protegían · rank #43,205 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,205
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH proteccionista
Nearest frequency peer: proteccionista (-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 “protegían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- prometidos
prometidos
56,800 corpus weight
- promulga
promulga
56,799 corpus weight
- proteccioni…
proteccionista
56,797 corpus weight
- protegían
protegían
56,796 corpus weight
- provinciano
provinciano
56,795 corpus weight
- puntitos
puntitos
56,793 corpus weight
What this shows “protegían” 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 | protegían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾot̪eˈxiãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “protegían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around protegían (IPA [pɾot̪eˈxiãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,205 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de proteger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for protegían, with forms such as "portegían", "pprotegían", and "proetgían". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "protejan", "protegió", "protegido", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is protegían, spelled P-R-O-T-E-G-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de proteger.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portegían
- pprotegían
- proetgían
- protegaín
- proteggían
- protegíann
- protegína
- proteígan
- protgeían
- prottegían
- prrotegían
- prtoegían
- rpotegían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protegían - 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
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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).