sustenta
[susˈt̪ẽn̪t̪a]
The verdict
“sustenta” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,843
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de sustentar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sustenta · sustenta · Spanish
sustenta · rank #20,843 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,843
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH suposiciones
Nearest frequency peer: suposiciones (-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 “sustenta”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sul
sul
79,161 corpus weight
- superhéroe
superhéroe
79,160 corpus weight
- suposiciones
suposiciones
79,159 corpus weight
- sustenta
sustenta
79,158 corpus weight
- timo
timo
79,157 corpus weight
- torso
torso
79,155 corpus weight
What this shows “sustenta” 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 | sustenta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [susˈt̪ẽn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sustenta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sustenta (IPA [susˈt̪ẽn̪t̪a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,843 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sustenta, with forms such as "ssustenta", "ssutenta", and "susetnta". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sustento", "sustentan", "sustentado", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sustenta, spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de sustentar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de sustentar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssustenta
- ssutenta
- susetnta
- susstenta
- sustenat
- sustennta
- sustentta
- sustetna
- sustneta
- susttenta
- sutsenta
- usstenta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sustenta - 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 "sustenta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).