comentadosvscomentariosTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#40,195
“comentados” frequency rank
#910
“comentarios” frequency rank
41105
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comentados comentarios
Definition Forma del plural de comentado, participio de comentar. Forma del plural de comentario.

Where the eye mixes comentados and comentarios

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

10 ch
comentados
11 ch
comentarios

Visual trap between comentados and comentarios

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: comentados is [komẽn̪ˈt̪að̞os] while comentarios is [komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾjos]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41105, 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]. comentarios is at rank #910, tagged as anoun, pronounced [komẽn̪ˈt̪aɾjos].

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 41105, this pair ranks #155,490 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of comentados vs comentarios

Shared letters: acemnost. Private to "comentados": d. Private to "comentarios": ir.

"comentados" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVC  ·  "comentarios" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comentadosccomentados · cmoentados · coemntados · comenatdos · comenntados · comentaddos · comentadoss · comentadso
  • comentariosccomentarios · cmoentarios · coemntarios · comenatrios · comenntarios · comentairos · comentarioss · comentariso

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "comentados" and "comentarios" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comentados" is a participle and "comentarios" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "comentados" or "comentarios"?
"comentarios" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #910 in our Spanish list, against #40,195 for "comentados". 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 "comentados" and "comentarios" 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 "comentarios" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #155,490 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comentados" and "comentarios" 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 #155,490 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