ávidosvshabidosTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,499
“ávidos” frequency rank
#38,162
“habidos” frequency rank
85661
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ávidos habidos
Definition Forma del plural de ávido. Forma del plural de habido, participio de haber.

Same sound, different letters: ávidos vs habidos

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. ávidos runs 6 letters (VCVCVC) against habidos's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
ávidos
7 ch
habidos

Ear matches; page differs - ávidos and habidos

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: ávidos and habidos carry the same recorded pronunciation, [ˈaβ̞ið̞os]. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other aparticiple, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85661, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ávidos is recorded at frequency rank #47,499, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈaβ̞ið̞os]. habidos is at rank #38,162, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [aˈβ̞ið̞os].

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 85661, this pair ranks #5,943 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of ávidos vs habidos

Shared letters: dios. Private to "ávidos": . Private to "habidos": abh.

"ávidos" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "habidos" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • habidosahbidos · habbidos · habdios · habiddos · habidoss · habidso · habiods · haibdos

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ávidos" and "habidos" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ávidos" is an adjective and "habidos" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ávidos" or "habidos"?
"habidos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,162 in our Spanish list, against #47,499 for "ávidos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"ávidos" and "habidos" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ávidos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "habidos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,943 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ávidos" and "habidos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "asiduos vs ávidos". 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 #5,943 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