amadasvsarmadaTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#48,198
“amadas” frequency rank
#3,031
“armada” frequency rank
51229
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amadas armada
Definition Forma del femenino plural de amado. Conjunto de las fuerzas navales de un Estado.

Where the eye mixes amadas and armada

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
amadas
6 ch
armada

Visual trap between amadas and armada

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: amadas is [aˈmað̞as] while armada is [aɾˈmað̞a]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 5 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 51229, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amadas is recorded at frequency rank #48,198, classified as anadj, pronounced [aˈmað̞as]. armada is at rank #3,031, tagged as anoun, pronounced [aɾˈmað̞a].

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 51229, this pair ranks #98,958 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amadas vs armada

Shared letters: adm. Private to "amadas": s. Private to "armada": r.

"amadas" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "armada" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amadasaamdas · amaads · amadass · amaddas · amadsa · amdaas · maadas
  • armadaamrada · aramda · armaad · armadda · armdaa · armmada · arrmada · ramada

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "amadas" for "armada" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amadas" is an adjective and "armada" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "amadas" or "armada" show up more?
"armada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,031 in our Spanish list, against #48,198 for "amadas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "amadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "armada" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #98,958 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amadas" and "armada" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amadas vs amarras". 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 #98,958 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