terminaba
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,365
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
terminaba is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de terminar o de terminarse. Pronounced [t̪eɾmiˈnaβ̞a]. Often confused with terminar and terminan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terminaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪eɾmiˈnaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for terminaba is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eɾmiˈnaβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,365 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for terminaba, with forms such as "etrminaba", "temrinaba", and "terimnaba". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "terminar", "terminan", "terminal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is terminaba, spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de terminar o de terminarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de terminar o de terminarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrminaba,temrinaba,terimnaba,termianba,terminaab,terminabba,terminava,terminbaa,terminnaba,termminaba,termniaba,terrminaba,treminaba,tterminaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terminaba
Misspelling Variants of "terminaba"
Frequency rank: #13,365 in Spanish
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