quitan
[ˈkit̪ãn]
The verdict
“quitan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,056
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- 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 indicativo de quitar o de quitarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quitan · quitan · Spanish
quitan · rank #10,056 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,056
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH puño
Nearest frequency peer: puño (-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 “quitan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- puramente
puramente
89,948 corpus weight
- puras
puras
89,947 corpus weight
- puño
puño
89,946 corpus weight
- quitan
quitan
89,945 corpus weight
- recto
recto
89,943 corpus weight
- recurrente
recurrente
89,942 corpus weight
What this shows “quitan” 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 | quitan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkit̪ãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “quitan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around quitan (IPA [ˈkit̪ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,056 among 364 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de quitar o de quitarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for quitan, with forms such as "qiutan", "qquitan", and "quiatn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "quizá", "Quito", "quite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 quitan, spelled Q-U-I-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de quitar o de quitarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiutan
- qquitan
- quiatn
- quitann
- quittan
- qutian
- uqitan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quitan - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).