acompañadovsacompañadosWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#3,823
“acompañado” frequency rank
#10,439
“acompañados” frequency rank
14262
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Where the eye mixes acompañado and acompañados

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

10 ch
acompañado
11 ch
acompañados

Visual trap between acompañado and acompañados

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: acompañado is [akõmpaˈɲað̞o] while acompañados is [akõmpaˈɲað̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “acompañado” sits inside “acompañados”, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14262, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acompañado is recorded at frequency rank #3,823, classified as anadj, pronounced [akõmpaˈɲað̞o]. 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 14262, this pair ranks #284,804 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of acompañado vs acompañados

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "acompañado" and "acompañados" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "acompañado" is an adjective and "acompañados" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "acompañado" vs "acompañados" - which ranks higher?
"acompañado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,823 in our Spanish list, against #10,439 for "acompañados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "acompañado" 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 #284,804 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acompañado" and "acompañados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acampando vs acompañado". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #284,804 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