situaban
[siˈt̪waβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“situaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,423 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,423
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
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 situar o de situarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-situaban · situaban · Spanish
situaban · rank #63,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,423
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH simpatizo
Nearest frequency peer: simpatizo (-2 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 “situaban”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- siege
siege
36,582 corpus weight
- simpatizo
simpatizo
36,580 corpus weight
- situaban
situaban
36,578 corpus weight
- sob
sob
36,576 corpus weight
- sobraban
sobraban
36,574 corpus weight
- sobrenombres
sobrenombres
36,573 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “situaban” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | situaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siˈt̪waβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “situaban” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
situaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,423 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [siˈt̪waβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de situar o de situarse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for situaban, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is situaban, spelled S-I-T-U-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de situar o de situarse.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.