Which to use
“admirada” is a participle and “admirado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #41,164
- “admirada” frequency rank
- #21,209
- “admirado” frequency rank
- 62373
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admirada | admirado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Forma del femenino de admirado, participio de admirar. | admirado ¦ plural: admirados ¦ femenino: admirada ¦ femenino plural: admiradas |
Where the eye mixes admirada and admirado
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. admirada and admirado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between admirada and admirado
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: admirada is [að̞miˈɾað̞a] while admirado is [að̞miˈɾað̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “admirada” becomes o in “admirado”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62373, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
admirada is recorded at frequency rank #41,164, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞miˈɾað̞a]. admirado is at rank #21,209, tagged as anadj, pronounced [að̞miˈɾað̞o].
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 62373, this pair ranks #52,255 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of admirada vs admirado
Shared letters: adimr. Private to "admirada": -. Private to "admirado": o.
"admirada" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "admirado" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "admirada" for "admirado" ever safe?
Which is more common, "admirada" or "admirado"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "admirada" and "admirado" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "admirada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "admirado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #52,255 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admirada" and "admirado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admirada vs admiradora". 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 #52,255 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.