aportadasvsaportadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,554
“aportadas” frequency rank
#16,259
“aportado” frequency rank
63813
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aportadas aportado
Definition Forma del femenino plural de aportado, participio de aportar. Participio de aportar.

Where the eye mixes aportadas and aportado

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

9 ch
aportadas
8 ch
aportado

Visual trap between aportadas and aportado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: aportadas is [apoɾˈt̪að̞as] while aportado is [apoɾˈt̪að̞o]. 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 63813, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aportadas is recorded at frequency rank #47,554, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [apoɾˈt̪að̞as]. aportado is at rank #16,259, tagged as averb, pronounced [apoɾˈt̪að̞o].

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 63813, this pair ranks #47,520 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aportadas vs aportado

Shared letters: adoprt. Private to "aportadas": s. Private to "aportado": -.

"aportadas" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC  ·  "aportado" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aportadasaoprtadas · aporatdas · aporrtadas · aportaads · aportadass · aportaddas · aportadsa · aportdaas
  • aportadoaoprtado · aporatdo · aporrtado · aportaddo · aportaod · aportdao · aporttado · apotrado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aportadas" for "aportado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aportadas" is a participle and "aportado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aportadas" vs "aportado" - which ranks higher?
"aportado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,259 in our Spanish list, against #47,554 for "aportadas". 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 "aportadas" and "aportado" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aportadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aportado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,520 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aportadas" and "aportado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "anotadas 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 #47,520 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