Which to use
“casado” and “cazado” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,385
- “casado” frequency rank
- #38,561
- “cazado” frequency rank
- 41946
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | casado | cazado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Se dice de la persona que ha contraído matrimonio. | Que ha sido preso o aprehendido a la caza. |
Same sound, different letters: casado vs cazado
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. casado and cazado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: casado vs cazado
This is the hard kind. casado and cazado are pronounced identically ([kaˈsað̞o]) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “casado” becomes z in “cazado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41946, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
casado is recorded at frequency rank #3,385, classified as anadj, pronounced [kaˈsað̞o]. cazado is at rank #38,561, tagged as anadj, pronounced [kaˈsað̞o].
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 41946, this pair ranks #150,906 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of casado vs cazado
Shared letters: acdo. Private to "casado": s. Private to "cazado": z.
"casado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "cazado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "casado" for "cazado" ever safe?
Which is more common, "casado" or "cazado"?
What to do next
"casado" and "cazado" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "casado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cazado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #150,906 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "casado" and "cazado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cazado vs cenado". 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 #150,906 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.