admiradovsadmiradorConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#21,209
“admirado” frequency rank
#20,871
“admirador” frequency rank
42080
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admirado admirador
Definition admirado ¦ plural: admirados ¦ femenino: admirada ¦ femenino plural: admiradas Que admira o tiene en muy alta consideración a otra persona o su obra.

Where the eye mixes admirado and admirador

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. admirado runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against admirador's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
admirado
9 ch
admirador

Visual trap between admirado and admirador

A purely visual mix-up. admirado ([að̞miˈɾað̞o]) and admirador ([að̞miɾaˈð̞oɾ]) 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) - “admirado” sits inside “admirador”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42080, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

admirado is recorded at frequency rank #21,209, classified as anadj, pronounced [að̞miˈɾað̞o]. admirador is at rank #20,871, tagged as anadj, pronounced [að̞miɾaˈð̞oɾ].

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 42080, this pair ranks #150,201 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of admirado vs admirador

Shared letters: adimor. Private to "admirado": -. Private to "admirador": -.

"admirado" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV  ·  "admirador" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admiradoaddmirado · adimrado · admiardo · admiraddo · admiraod · admirdao · admirrado · admmirado
  • admiradoraddmirador · adimrador · admiardor · admiraddor · admiradorr · admiradro · admiraodr · admirdaor

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "admirado" for "admirador" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([að̞miˈɾað̞o] versus [að̞miɾaˈð̞oɾ]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "admirado" or "admirador"?
"admirador" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,871 in our Spanish list, against #21,209 for "admirado". 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 "admirado" and "admirador" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "admirado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admirador" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #150,201 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admirado" and "admirador" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admirado 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 #150,201 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