ágilesvsanimesTell them apart

Quick tell: ágiles is a adjective, animes is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ágiles” is an adjective and “animes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,904
“ágiles” frequency rank
#27,093
“animes” frequency rank
60997
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ágiles animes
Definition Forma del plural de ágil. Forma del plural de anime.

Where the eye mixes ágiles and animes

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. ágiles and animes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
ágiles
6 ch
animes

Look-alike desk: ágiles vs animes

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: ágiles is [ˈaxiles] while animes is [aˈnimes]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60997, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ágiles is recorded at frequency rank #33,904, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈaxiles]. animes is at rank #27,093, tagged as anoun, pronounced [aˈnimes].

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 60997, this pair ranks #56,971 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of ágiles vs animes

Shared letters: eis. Private to "ágiles": glá. Private to "animes": amn.

"ágiles" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "animes" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • animesainmes · aniems · animess · animmes · animse · anmies · annimes · naimes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ágiles" and "animes" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ágiles" is an adjective and "animes" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ágiles" or "animes"?
"animes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,093 in our Spanish list, against #33,904 for "ágiles". 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 "ágiles" and "animes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ágiles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "animes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #56,971 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ágiles" and "animes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "animes vs asumes". 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 #56,971 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