admitíavsadmitidaConfusable pair

Quick tell: admitía is a verb, admitida is a participle, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“admitía” is a verb and “admitida” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,104
“admitía” frequency rank
#30,735
“admitida” frequency rank
75839
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admitía admitida
Definition Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de admitir. Forma del femenino de admitido, participio de admitir.

Where the eye mixes admitía and admitida

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. admitía runs 7 letters (VCCVCVV) against admitida's 8 (VCCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
admitía
8 ch
admitida

Look-alike desk: admitía vs admitida

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: admitía is [að̞miˈt̪ia] while admitida is [að̞miˈt̪ið̞a]. 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 (verb vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75839, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

admitía is recorded at frequency rank #45,104, classified as averb, pronounced [að̞miˈt̪ia]. admitida is at rank #30,735, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞miˈt̪ið̞a].

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 75839, this pair ranks #18,806 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of admitía vs admitida

Shared letters: adimt. Private to "admitía": í. Private to "admitida": -.

"admitía" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV  ·  "admitida" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admitida ← addmitida · adimtida · admiitda · admitdia · admitiad · admitidda · admittida · admmitida

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "admitía" and "admitida" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "admitía" is a verb and "admitida" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "admitía" vs "admitida" - which ranks higher?
"admitida" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,735 in our Spanish list, against #45,104 for "admitía". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "admitía" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admitida" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,806 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admitía" and "admitida" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admitan vs admitía". 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 #18,806 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