tocaba
[t̪oˈkaβ̞a]
The verdict
“tocaba” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,063. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,063
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de tocar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tocaba · tocaba · Spanish
tocaba · rank #8,063 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,063
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH toco
Nearest frequency peer: toco (+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 “tocaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- tacos
tacos
91,941 corpus weight
- talentos
talentos
91,940 corpus weight
- tocaba
tocaba
91,938 corpus weight
- toco
toco
91,937 corpus weight
- torta
torta
91,936 corpus weight
- traidor
traidor
91,935 corpus weight
What this shows “tocaba” 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 | tocaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪oˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tocaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tocaba (IPA [t̪oˈkaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,063 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tocaba, with forms such as "otcaba", "tcoaba", and "toacba". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "tocar", "tocan", "tocas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tocaba, spelled T-O-C-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de tocar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de tocar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otcaba
- tcoaba
- toacba
- tocaab
- tocabba
- tocava
- tocbaa
- toccaba
- ttocaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tocaba - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "tocaba", 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).