protejan
[pɾoˈt̪exãn]
The verdict
“protejan” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,576
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- 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 proteger.
Corpus desk
Index ES-protejan · protejan · Spanish
protejan · rank #26,576 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,576
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH provisionalme…
Nearest frequency peer: provisionalmente (+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 “protejan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- profundiza
profundiza
73,430 corpus weight
- proporciona…
proporcionalmente
73,429 corpus weight
- proporciona…
proporcionará
73,428 corpus weight
- protejan
protejan
73,425 corpus weight
- provisional…
provisionalmente
73,424 corpus weight
- puntuaciones
puntuaciones
73,421 corpus weight
What this shows “protejan” 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 | protejan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾoˈt̪exãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “protejan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around protejan (IPA [pɾoˈt̪exãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,576 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for protejan, with forms such as "portejan", "pprotejan", and "proetjan". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "protestan", "proteja", "protegen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is protejan, spelled P-R-O-T-E-J-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de proteger.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de proteger.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portejan
- pprotejan
- proetjan
- proteajn
- protejann
- protejjan
- protejna
- protjean
- prottejan
- prrotejan
- prtoejan
- rpotejan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protejan - 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 "protejan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).