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

#22,317
“deliciosas” frequency rank
#18,506
“deliciosos” frequency rank
40823
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature deliciosas deliciosos
Definition Forma del femenino plural de delicioso. Forma del plural de delicioso.

Where the eye mixes deliciosas and deliciosos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. deliciosas and deliciosos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
deliciosas
10 ch
deliciosos

Look-alike desk: deliciosas vs deliciosos

A purely visual mix-up. deliciosas ([d̪eliˈsjosas]) and deliciosos ([d̪eliˈsjosos]) 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 a single letter - a in “deliciosas” becomes o in “deliciosos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40823, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

deliciosas is recorded at frequency rank #22,317, classified as anadj, pronounced [d̪eliˈsjosas]. deliciosos is at rank #18,506, tagged as anadj, pronounced [d̪eliˈsjosos].

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 40823, this pair ranks #157,000 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of deliciosas vs deliciosos

Shared letters: cdeilos. Private to "deliciosas": a. Private to "deliciosos": -.

"deliciosas" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVVCVC  ·  "deliciosos" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • deliciosas ← ddeliciosas · deilciosas · delciiosas · delicciosas · delicioass · deliciosass · deliciossas · delicisoas
  • deliciosos ← ddeliciosos · deilciosos · delciiosos · delicciosos · deliciooss · deliciososs · deliciossos · delicisoos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "deliciosas" and "deliciosos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([d̪eliˈsjosas] versus [d̪eliˈsjosos]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "deliciosas" vs "deliciosos" - which ranks higher?
"deliciosos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,506 in our Spanish list, against #22,317 for "deliciosas". 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 "deliciosas" and "deliciosos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "deliciosas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "deliciosos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #157,000 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "deliciosas" and "deliciosos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "deliciosa vs deliciosas". 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 #157,000 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