acompañadasvsacompañadoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: acompañadas is a participle, acompañado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“acompañadas” is a participle and “acompañado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,494
“acompañadas” frequency rank
#3,823
“acompañado” frequency rank
20317
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acompañadas acompañado
Definition Forma del femenino plural de acompañado, adjetivo y también participio de acompañar o de acompañarse. Que vive con una pareja sexual sin haberse casado.

Where the eye mixes acompañadas and acompañado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. acompañadas runs 11 letters (VCVCCVCVCVC) against acompañado's 10 (VCVCCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
acompañadas
10 ch
acompañado

Visual trap between acompañadas and acompañado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: acompañadas is [akõmpaˈɲað̞as] while acompañado is [akõmpaˈɲað̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20317, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acompañadas is recorded at frequency rank #16,494, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [akõmpaˈɲað̞as]. acompañado is at rank #3,823, tagged as anadj, pronounced [akõmpaˈɲað̞o].

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 20317, this pair ranks #259,857 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of acompañadas vs acompañado

Shared letters: acdmopñ. Private to "acompañadas": s. Private to "acompañado": -.

"acompañadas" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCVC  ·  "acompañado" · 10 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "acompañadas" and "acompañado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "acompañadas" is a participle and "acompañado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "acompañadas" vs "acompañado" - which ranks higher?
"acompañado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,823 in our Spanish list, against #16,494 for "acompañadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "acompañadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acompañado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #259,857 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acompañadas" and "acompañado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acompañadas vs acompañarán". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #259,857 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