comentadosvscomentamosWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#40,195
“comentados” frequency rank
#27,530
“comentamos” frequency rank
67725
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comentados comentamos
Definition Forma del plural de comentado, participio de comentar. Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de comentar.

Where the eye mixes comentados and comentamos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence.

10 ch
comentados
10 ch
comentamos

Look-alike desk: comentados vs comentamos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: comentados is [komẽn̪ˈt̪að̞os] while comentamos is [komẽn̪ˈt̪amos]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - d in “comentados” becomes m in “comentamos”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67725, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comentados is recorded at frequency rank #40,195, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [komẽn̪ˈt̪að̞os]. comentamos is at rank #27,530, tagged as averb, pronounced [komẽn̪ˈt̪amos].

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 67725, this pair ranks #36,379 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of comentados vs comentamos

Shared letters: acemnost. Private to "comentados": d. Private to "comentamos": -.

"comentados" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVC  ·  "comentamos" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comentadosccomentados · cmoentados · coemntados · comenatdos · comenntados · comentaddos · comentadoss · comentadso
  • comentamosccomentamos · cmoentamos · coemntamos · comenatmos · comenntamos · comentammos · comentamoss · comentamso

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "comentados" and "comentamos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comentados" is a participle and "comentamos" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "comentados" or "comentamos"?
"comentamos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,530 in our Spanish list, against #40,195 for "comentados". 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 "comentados" and "comentamos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "comentados" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "comentamos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #36,379 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comentados" and "comentamos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "comentadas vs comentados". 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 #36,379 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