significaba
[siɣ̞nifiˈkaβ̞a]
The verdict
“significaba” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,879. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,879
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de significar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-significaba · significaba · Spanish
significaba · rank #8,879 · 18 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,879
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH señalando
Nearest frequency peer: señalando (-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 “significaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- señalando
señalando
91,123 corpus weight
- significaba
significaba
91,122 corpus weight
- sospechosos
sospechosos
91,121 corpus weight
- sostienen
sostienen
91,120 corpus weight
- subsidio
subsidio
91,119 corpus weight
- sustituir
sustituir
91,118 corpus weight
What this shows “significaba” 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 | significaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siɣ̞nifiˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “significaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around significaba (IPA [siɣ̞nifiˈkaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,879 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for significaba, with forms such as "cignificaba", "isgnificaba", and "sginificaba". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "significar", "significan", "significado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is significaba, spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de significar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de significar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cignificaba
- isgnificaba
- sginificaba
- siggnificaba
- siginficaba
- signfiicaba
- signifciaba
- signifficaba
- signifiacba
- significaab
- significabba
- significava
- significbaa
- significcaba
- signiifcaba
- signnificaba
- singificaba
- ssignificaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of significaba - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "significaba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).