admitidavsadmitióWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#30,735
“admitida” frequency rank
#10,603
“admitió” frequency rank
41338
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admitida admitió
Definition Forma del femenino de admitido, participio de admitir. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de admitir.

Where the eye mixes admitida and admitió

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

8 ch
admitida
7 ch
admitió

Look-alike desk: admitida vs admitió

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: admitida is [að̞miˈt̪ið̞a] while admitió is [að̞miˈt̪jo]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41338, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

admitida is recorded at frequency rank #30,735, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞miˈt̪ið̞a]. admitió is at rank #10,603, tagged as averb, pronounced [að̞miˈt̪jo].

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 41338, this pair ranks #154,199 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of admitida vs admitió

Shared letters: adimt. Private to "admitida": -. Private to "admitió": ó.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admitidaaddmitida · adimtida · admiitda · admitdia · admitiad · admitidda · admittida · admmitida

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "admitida" for "admitió" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "admitida" is a participle and "admitió" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "admitida" or "admitió" show up more?
"admitió" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,603 in our Spanish list, against #30,735 for "admitida". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "admitida" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admitió" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #154,199 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admitida" and "admitió" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admitía vs admitida". 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 #154,199 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