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“confirmada” and “confirmadas” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#12,343
“confirmada” frequency rank
#25,187
“confirmadas” frequency rank
37530
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature confirmada confirmadas
Definition Forma del femenino de confirmado, participio de confirmar o de confirmarse. Forma del femenino plural de confirmado, participio de confirmar o de confirmarse.

Where the eye mixes confirmada and confirmadas

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. confirmada runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVCV) against confirmadas's 11 (CVCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
confirmada
11 ch
confirmadas

Why the eye confuses confirmada with confirmadas

A purely visual mix-up. confirmada ([kõɱfiɾˈmað̞a]) and confirmadas ([kõɱfiɾˈmað̞as]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “confirmada” sits inside “confirmadas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

confirmada is recorded at frequency rank #12,343, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [kõɱfiɾˈmað̞a]. confirmadas is at rank #25,187, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [kõɱfiɾˈmað̞as].

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 37530, this pair ranks #174,833 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of confirmada vs confirmadas

Shared letters: acdfimnor. Private to "confirmada": -. Private to "confirmadas": s.

"confirmada" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV  ·  "confirmadas" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • confirmadacconfirmada · cnofirmada · cofnirmada · conffirmada · confimrada · confiramda · confirmaad · confirmadda
  • confirmadascconfirmadas · cnofirmadas · cofnirmadas · conffirmadas · confimradas · confiramdas · confirmaads · confirmadass

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "confirmada" for "confirmadas" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([kõɱfiɾˈmað̞a] versus [kõɱfiɾˈmað̞as]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "confirmada" or "confirmadas" show up more?
"confirmada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,343 in our Spanish list, against #25,187 for "confirmadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "confirmada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "confirmadas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #174,833 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "confirmada" and "confirmadas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confirmadas vs confirmamos". 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 #174,833 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