sentían
[sẽn̪ˈt̪iãn]
The verdict
“sentían” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,216
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
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 sentir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sentian · sentían · Spanish
sentían · rank #16,216 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,216
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sensato
Nearest frequency peer: sensato (-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 “sentían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sellado
sellado
83,788 corpus weight
- semifinal
semifinal
83,787 corpus weight
- sensato
sensato
83,786 corpus weight
- sentían
sentían
83,785 corpus weight
- sermón
sermón
83,784 corpus weight
- severas
severas
83,783 corpus weight
What this shows “sentían” 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 | sentían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sẽn̪ˈt̪iãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sentían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sentían (IPA [sẽn̪ˈt̪iãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,216 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sentir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentían, with forms such as "centían", "esntían", and "senntían". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "sentir", "serían", "Sentis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is sentían, spelled S-E-N-T-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sentir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- centían
- esntían
- senntían
- sentaín
- senttían
- sentíann
- sentína
- senítan
- setnían
- snetían
- ssentían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentían - 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 "sentían", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).