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

#33,914
“adornada” frequency rank
#43,353
“adornadas” frequency rank
77267
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adornada adornadas
Definition Forma del femenino de adornado, participio de adornar. Forma del femenino plural de adornado, participio de adornar.

Where the eye mixes adornada and adornadas

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

8 ch
adornada
9 ch
adornadas

Look-alike desk: adornada vs adornadas

A purely visual mix-up. adornada ([að̞oɾˈnað̞a]) and adornadas ([að̞oɾˈnað̞as]) 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) - “adornada” sits inside “adornadas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77267, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adornada is recorded at frequency rank #33,914, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞oɾˈnað̞a]. adornadas is at rank #43,353, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [að̞oɾˈnað̞as].

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 77267, this pair ranks #16,299 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of adornada vs adornadas

Shared letters: adnor. Private to "adornada": -. Private to "adornadas": s.

"adornada" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV  ·  "adornadas" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adornadaaddornada · adonrada · adoranda · adornaad · adornadda · adorndaa · adornnada · adorrnada
  • adornadasaddornadas · adonradas · adorandas · adornaads · adornadass · adornaddas · adornadsa · adorndaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "adornada" and "adornadas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([að̞oɾˈnað̞a] versus [að̞oɾˈnað̞as]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "adornada" vs "adornadas" - which ranks higher?
"adornada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,914 in our Spanish list, against #43,353 for "adornadas". 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 "adornada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adornadas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #16,299 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adornada" and "adornadas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adornadas vs aportadas". 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 #16,299 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