señalaba
[seɲaˈlaβ̞a]
The verdict
“señalaba” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,289
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de señalar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-senalaba · señalaba · Spanish
señalaba · rank #17,289 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,289
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sexenio
Nearest frequency peer: sexenio (-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 “señalaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sepulcro
sepulcro
82,715 corpus weight
- serías
serías
82,714 corpus weight
- sexenio
sexenio
82,713 corpus weight
- señalaba
señalaba
82,712 corpus weight
- soborno
soborno
82,710 corpus weight
- solicitaron
solicitaron
82,709 corpus weight
What this shows “señalaba” 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 | señalaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seɲaˈlaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “señalaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around señalaba (IPA [seɲaˈlaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,289 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for señalaba, with forms such as "ceñalaba", "esñalaba", and "seañlaba". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "señalar", "señalan", "sentaba", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is señalaba, spelled S-E-Ñ-A-L-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de señalar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de señalar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ceñalaba
- esñalaba
- seañlaba
- señaalba
- señalaab
- señalabba
- señalava
- señalbaa
- señallaba
- señlaaba
- sseñalaba
- sñealaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of señalaba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "señalaba", 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).