accesovsaccesosConfusable pair

Which to use

“acceso” and “accesos” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#780
“acceso” frequency rank
#12,512
“accesos” frequency rank
13292
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acceso accesos
Definition Acción de llegar, entrar o acercarse.. Forma del plural de acceso.

Where the eye mixes acceso and accesos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. acceso runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against accesos's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
acceso
7 ch
accesos

Look-alike desk: acceso vs accesos

A purely visual mix-up. acceso ([akˈseso]) and accesos ([akˈsesos]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “acceso” sits inside “accesos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13292, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acceso is recorded at frequency rank #780, classified as anoun, pronounced [akˈseso]. accesos is at rank #12,512, tagged as anoun, pronounced [akˈsesos].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 13292, this pair ranks #288,398 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of acceso vs accesos

Shared letters: aceos. Private to "acceso": -. Private to "accesos": -.

"acceso" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "accesos" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acceso ← acceos · accesso · accseo · acecso · aceso · acseso · caceso
  • accesos ← acceoss · accesoss · accessos · accseos · acecsos · acesos · acsesos · cacesos

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "acceso" and "accesos" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently ([akˈseso] versus [akˈsesos]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "acceso" vs "accesos" - which ranks higher?
"acceso" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #780 in our Spanish list, against #12,512 for "accesos". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "acceso" and "accesos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "acceso" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accesos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #288,398 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acceso" and "accesos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accesos vs aceros". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #288,398 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list