sustentaba
[sust̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞a]
The verdict
“sustentaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,420 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,420
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sustentar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sustentaba · sustentaba · Spanish
sustentaba · rank #91,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,420
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH suscitados
Nearest frequency peer: suscitados (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “sustentaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- supervisaba
supervisaba
8,585 corpus weight
- surtiendo
surtiendo
8,583 corpus weight
- suscitados
suscitados
8,582 corpus weight
- sustentaba
sustentaba
8,581 corpus weight
- sésiles
sésiles
8,578 corpus weight
- sétima
sétima
8,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sustentaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sustentaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sust̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sustentaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sustentaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,420 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [sust̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sustentaba, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is sustentaba, spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sustentar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sustentar.
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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