unían
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,867
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
unían is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de unir o de unirse. Pronounced [uˈniãn]. Often confused with usan and unit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [uˈniãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for unían is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uˈniãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,867 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de unir o de unirse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for unían, with forms such as "nuían", "unaín", and "unnían". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "usan", "unit", "UNIX", 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 unían, spelled U-N-Í-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de unir o de unirse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuían,unaín,unnían,uníann,unína,uínan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for unían
Misspelling Variants of "unían"
Frequency rank: #36,867 in Spanish
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