ubicaban
[uβ̞iˈkaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“ubicaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,248 among 448 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,248
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ubicar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ubicaban · ubicaban · Spanish
ubicaban · rank #73,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH ultimar
Nearest frequency peer: ultimar (+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 “ubicaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- trophy
trophy
26,757 corpus weight
- trullo
trullo
26,756 corpus weight
- ubicaban
ubicaban
26,753 corpus weight
- ultimar
ultimar
26,752 corpus weight
- ungüentos
ungüentos
26,751 corpus weight
- unidimensio…
unidimensional
26,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ubicaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ubicaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [uβ̞iˈkaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ubicaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ubicaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,248 among 448 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [uβ̞iˈkaβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ubicar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ubicaban, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ubicaban, spelled U-B-I-C-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ubicar.
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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