# debido vs decaído

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### debido
*verb · IPA [d̪eˈβ̞ið̞o] · frequency rank #479*
Participio de deber.

### decaído
*verb · IPA [d̪ekaˈið̞o] · frequency rank #44,678*
Participio de decaer.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/es/vs/debido-vs-decaido