casadovscosidoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: casado is a adjective, cosido is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“casado” is an adjective and “cosido” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,385
“casado” frequency rank
#44,668
“cosido” frequency rank
48053
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casado cosido
Definition Se dice de la persona que ha contraído matrimonio. Participio de coser o de coserse.

Where the eye mixes casado and cosido

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
casado
6 ch
cosido

Look-alike desk: casado vs cosido

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: casado is [kaˈsað̞o] while cosido is [koˈsið̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48053, 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]. cosido is at rank #44,668, tagged as averb, pronounced [koˈsið̞o].

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 48053, this pair ranks #116,588 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of casado vs cosido

Shared letters: cdos. Private to "casado": a. Private to "cosido": i.

"casado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "cosido" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casadoacsado · caasdo · casaddo · casaod · casdao · cassado · ccasado · csaado
  • cosidoccosido · coisdo · cosdio · cosiddo · cosiod · cossido · csoido · ocsido

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "casado" for "cosido" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "casado" is an adjective and "cosido" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "casado" or "cosido"?
"casado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,385 in our Spanish list, against #44,668 for "cosido". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "casado" and "cosido" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cosido" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #116,588 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casado" and "cosido" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cogidos vs cosido". 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 #116,588 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