requerían
[rekeˈɾiãn]
The verdict
“requerían” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,647
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,955
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de requerir.
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 | requerían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [rekeˈɾiãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requerían” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around requerían (IPA [rekeˈɾiãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,647 among 48,955 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de requerir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for requerían, with forms such as "erquerían", "reqeurían", and "reqquerían". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "requerir", "requerido", "requerida", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is requerían, spelled R-E-Q-U-E-R-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de requerir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erquerían,reqeurían,reqquerían,requeraín,requerrían,requeríann,requerína,requeíran,requreían,reuqerían,rqeuerían,rrequerían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of requerían - 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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Using “requerían”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-Q-U-E-R-Í-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [rekeˈɾiãn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “requerir” - see the side-by-side comparison. requerían vs requerir
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.