admiradovsadmiramosConfusable pair

Quick tell: admirado is a adjective, admiramos is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“admirado” is an adjective and “admiramos” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,209
“admirado” frequency rank
#40,620
“admiramos” frequency rank
61829
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admirado admiramos
Definition admirado ¦ plural: admirados ¦ femenino: admirada ¦ femenino plural: admiradas Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de admirar.

Where the eye mixes admirado and admiramos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. admirado runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against admiramos's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
admirado
9 ch
admiramos

Look-alike desk: admirado vs admiramos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: admirado is [að̞miˈɾað̞o] while admiramos is [að̞miˈɾamos]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61829, 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]. admiramos is at rank #40,620, tagged as averb, pronounced [að̞miˈɾamos].

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 61829, this pair ranks #54,121 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of admirado vs admiramos

Shared letters: adimor. Private to "admirado": -. Private to "admiramos": s.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admiradoaddmirado · adimrado · admiardo · admiraddo · admiraod · admirdao · admirrado · admmirado
  • admiramosaddmiramos · adimramos · admiarmos · admirammos · admiramoss · admiramso · admiraoms · admirmaos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "admirado" for "admiramos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "admirado" is an adjective and "admiramos" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "admirado" or "admiramos"?
"admirado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,209 in our Spanish list, against #40,620 for "admiramos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "admirado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admiramos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,121 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admirado" and "admiramos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admiramos vs adoramos". 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 #54,121 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