comisionadavscomisionadoConfusable pair

Quick tell: comisionada is a participle, comisionado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“comisionada” is a participle and “comisionado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,198
“comisionada” frequency rank
#7,686
“comisionado” frequency rank
47884
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comisionada comisionado
Definition Forma del femenino de comisionado, participio de comisionar. Que tiene a su cargo una comisión o tarea.

Where the eye mixes comisionada and comisionado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. comisionada and comisionado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

11 ch
comisionada
11 ch
comisionado

Visual trap between comisionada and comisionado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: comisionada is [komisjoˈnað̞a] while comisionado is [komisjoˈnað̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “comisionada” becomes o in “comisionado”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47884, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comisionada is recorded at frequency rank #40,198, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [komisjoˈnað̞a]. comisionado is at rank #7,686, tagged as anadj, pronounced [komisjoˈnað̞o].

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 47884, this pair ranks #117,546 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of comisionada vs comisionado

Shared letters: acdimnos. Private to "comisionada": -. Private to "comisionado": -.

"comisionada" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVVCVCV  ·  "comisionado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comisionada ← ccomisionada · cmoisionada · coimsionada · comicionada · comiisonada · comisinoada · comisioanda · comisionaad
  • comisionado ← ccomisionado · cmoisionado · coimsionado · comicionado · comiisonado · comisinoado · comisioando · comisionaddo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "comisionada" and "comisionado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comisionada" is a participle and "comisionado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "comisionada" vs "comisionado" - which ranks higher?
"comisionado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,686 in our Spanish list, against #40,198 for "comisionada". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "comisionada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "comisionado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #117,546 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comisionada" and "comisionado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "comisionada vs comisionados". 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 #117,546 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