apartadovsaportadosConfusable pair

Quick tell: apartado is a adjective, aportados is a participle, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“apartado” is an adjective and “aportados” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,855
“apartado” frequency rank
#29,925
“aportados” frequency rank
34780
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature apartado aportados
Definition Distante, lejano, retirado. Forma del plural de aportado, participio de aportar.

Where the eye mixes apartado and aportados

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
apartado
9 ch
aportados

Look-alike desk: apartado vs aportados

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: apartado is [apaɾˈt̪að̞o] while aportados is [apoɾˈt̪að̞os]. 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 (adjective vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34780, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

apartado is recorded at frequency rank #4,855, classified as anadj, pronounced [apaɾˈt̪að̞o]. aportados is at rank #29,925, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [apoɾˈt̪að̞os].

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 34780, this pair ranks #189,612 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of apartado vs aportados

Shared letters: adoprt. Private to "apartado": -. Private to "aportados": s.

"apartado" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV  ·  "aportados" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • apartadoaaprtado · aparatdo · aparrtado · apartaddo · apartaod · apartdao · aparttado · apatrado
  • aportadosaoprtados · aporatdos · aporrtados · aportaddos · aportadoss · aportadso · aportaods · aportdaos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "apartado" for "aportados" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "apartado" is an adjective and "aportados" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "apartado" or "aportados"?
"apartado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,855 in our Spanish list, against #29,925 for "aportados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "apartado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aportados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #189,612 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "apartado" and "aportados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aportados vs apurados". 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 #189,612 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