regían
[reˈxiãn]
The verdict
“regían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,441 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,441
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” 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 regir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-regian · regían · Spanish
regían · rank #80,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,441
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH regidas
Nearest frequency peer: regidas (-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 “regían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- reencontró
reencontró
19,563 corpus weight
- regalaría
regalaría
19,562 corpus weight
- regidas
regidas
19,561 corpus weight
- regían
regían
19,560 corpus weight
- reinantes
reinantes
19,559 corpus weight
- remodelando
remodelando
19,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “regían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [reˈxiãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “regían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
regían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,441 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [reˈxiãn]. 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 regir.".
regían has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is regían, spelled R-E-G-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de regir.
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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