acompañadasvsacompañadosWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#16,494
“acompañadas” frequency rank
#10,439
“acompañados” frequency rank
26933
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acompañadas acompañados
Definition Forma del femenino plural de acompañado, adjetivo y también participio de acompañar o de acompañarse. Forma del plural de acompañado, adjetivo y también participio de acompañar o de acompañarse.

Where the eye mixes acompañadas and acompañados

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. acompañadas and acompañados follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

11 ch
acompañadas
11 ch
acompañados

Why the eye confuses acompañadas with acompañados

A purely visual mix-up. acompañadas ([akõmpaˈɲað̞as]) and acompañados ([akõmpaˈɲað̞os]) 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 a single letter - a in “acompañadas” becomes o in “acompañados”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26933, 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]. acompañados is at rank #10,439, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [akõmpaˈɲað̞os].

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 26933, this pair ranks #229,243 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of acompañadas vs acompañados

Shared letters: acdmopsñ. Private to "acompañadas": -. Private to "acompañados": -.

"acompañadas" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCVC  ·  "acompañados" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "acompañadas" and "acompañados" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([akõmpaˈɲað̞as] versus [akõmpaˈɲað̞os]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "acompañadas" or "acompañados" show up more?
"acompañados" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,439 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "acompañadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acompañados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #229,243 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acompañadas" and "acompañados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acompañadas vs acompañarán". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #229,243 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