sitúan
[siˈt̪uãn]
The verdict
“sitúan” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,821
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de situar o de situarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-situan · sitúan · Spanish
sitúan · rank #17,821 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,821
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sirenas
Nearest frequency peer: sirenas (-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 “sitúan”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sinónimos
sinónimos
82,182 corpus weight
- sirenas
sirenas
82,181 corpus weight
- sitúan
sitúan
82,180 corpus weight
- sofisticado
sofisticado
82,179 corpus weight
- sonoro
sonoro
82,178 corpus weight
- stella
stella
82,177 corpus weight
What this shows “sitúan” 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 | sitúan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siˈt̪uãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sitúan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sitúan (IPA [siˈt̪uãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,821 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de situar o de situarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sitúan, with forms such as "citúan", "istúan", and "sitaún". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Stan", "situar", "sita", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sitúan, spelled S-I-T-Ú-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de situar o de situarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- citúan
- istúan
- sitaún
- sittúan
- sitúann
- sitúna
- siútan
- ssitúan
- stiúan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sitúan - 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 "sitúan", 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).