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

#17,024
“adaptada” frequency rank
#23,646
“adaptadas” frequency rank
40670
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adaptada adaptadas
Definition Forma del femenino singular de adaptado, participio de adaptar. Forma del femenino plural de adaptado, participio de adaptar.

Where the eye mixes adaptada and adaptadas

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence.

8 ch
adaptada
9 ch
adaptadas

Look-alike desk: adaptada vs adaptadas

A purely visual mix-up. adaptada ([að̞apˈt̪að̞a]) and adaptadas ([að̞apˈt̪að̞as]) 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) - “adaptada” sits inside “adaptadas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40670, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adaptada is recorded at frequency rank #17,024, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞apˈt̪að̞a]. adaptadas is at rank #23,646, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞apˈt̪að̞as].

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 40670, this pair ranks #157,852 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adaptada vs adaptadas

Shared letters: adpt. Private to "adaptada": -. Private to "adaptadas": s.

"adaptada" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV  ·  "adaptadas" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adaptadaaadptada · adapatda · adapptada · adaptaad · adaptadda · adaptdaa · adapttada · adatpada
  • adaptadasaadptadas · adapatdas · adapptadas · adaptaads · adaptadass · adaptaddas · adaptadsa · adaptdaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "adaptada" and "adaptadas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([að̞apˈt̪að̞a] versus [að̞apˈt̪að̞as]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "adaptada" or "adaptadas" show up more?
"adaptada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,024 in our Spanish list, against #23,646 for "adaptadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adaptada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adaptadas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #157,852 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adaptada" and "adaptadas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adaptada vs asaltada". 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 #157,852 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