sentía
[sẽn̪ˈt̪ia]
The verdict
“sentía” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,954
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sentir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sentia · sentía · Spanish
sentía · rank #2,954 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,954
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH sabor
Nearest frequency peer: sabor (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sentía”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- religiosa
religiosa
97,050 corpus weight
- restaurante
restaurante
97,049 corpus weight
- sabor
sabor
97,048 corpus weight
- sentía
sentía
97,047 corpus weight
- supremo
supremo
97,046 corpus weight
- temporal
temporal
97,045 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sentía” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sentía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sẽn̪ˈt̪ia] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sentía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sentía (IPA [sẽn̪ˈt̪ia]), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,954 among 34,953 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentía, with forms such as "centía", "esntía", and "senntía". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "seta", "sería", "sexta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is sentía, spelled S-E-N-T-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sentir.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sentir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- centía
- esntía
- senntía
- sentaí
- senttía
- seníta
- setnía
- snetía
- ssentía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentía - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sentía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).
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.