dadasvsdamosWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#8,099
“dadas” frequency rank
#3,391
“damos” frequency rank
11490
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dadas damos
Definition Forma del femenino plural de dado, participio de dar. Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de dar o de darse.

Where the eye mixes dadas and damos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
dadas
5 ch
damos

Visual trap between dadas and damos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: dadas is [ˈd̪að̞as] while damos is [ˈd̪amos]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11490, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dadas is recorded at frequency rank #8,099, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [ˈd̪að̞as]. damos is at rank #3,391, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈd̪amos].

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 11490, this pair ranks #294,917 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of dadas vs damos

Shared letters: ads. Private to "dadas": -. Private to "damos": mo.

"dadas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "damos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dadasaddas · daads · dadass · daddas · dadsa · ddaas · ddadas
  • damosadmos · dammos · damoss · damso · daoms · ddamos · dmaos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "dadas" for "damos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dadas" is a participle and "damos" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "dadas" vs "damos" - which ranks higher?
"damos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,391 in our Spanish list, against #8,099 for "dadas". 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 "dadas" and "damos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "damos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #294,917 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dadas" and "damos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dadas vs donadas". 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 #294,917 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