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“cagados” and “casadas” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#45,792
“cagados” frequency rank
#16,035
“casadas” frequency rank
61827
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cagados casadas
Definition Forma del plural de cagado, participio de cagar. Forma del femenino plural de casado, participio de casar o de casarse.

Where the eye mixes cagados and casadas

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. cagados and casadas follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
cagados
7 ch
casadas

Visual trap between cagados and casadas

A purely visual mix-up. cagados ([kaˈɣ̞að̞os]) and casadas ([kaˈsað̞as]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61827, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cagados is recorded at frequency rank #45,792, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [kaˈɣ̞að̞os]. casadas is at rank #16,035, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [kaˈsað̞as].

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 61827, this pair ranks #54,126 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cagados vs casadas

Shared letters: acds. Private to "cagados": go. Private to "casadas": -.

"cagados" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "casadas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cagados ← acgados · caagdos · cagaddos · cagadoss · cagadso · cagaods · cagdaos · caggados
  • casadas ← acsadas · caasdas · casaads · casadass · casaddas · casadsa · casdaas · cassadas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cagados" for "casadas" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([kaˈɣ̞að̞os] versus [kaˈsað̞as]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "cagados" or "casadas"?
"casadas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,035 in our Spanish list, against #45,792 for "cagados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cagados" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casadas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,126 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cagados" and "casadas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cagados vs cogidos". 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 #54,126 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