demandavsdemandadaWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: demanda is a noun, demandada is a participle, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“demanda” is a noun and “demandada” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,407
“demanda” frequency rank
#27,181
“demandada” frequency rank
28588
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature demanda demandada
Definition Acto de pedir algo que se considera justo, merecido o necesario. Forma del femenino de demandado, participio de demandar.

Where the eye mixes demanda and demandada

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

7 ch
demanda
9 ch
demandada

Look-alike desk: demanda vs demandada

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: demanda is [d̪eˈmãn̪d̪a] while demandada is [d̪emãn̪ˈd̪að̞a]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “demanda” sits inside “demandada”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28588, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

demanda is recorded at frequency rank #1,407, classified as anoun, pronounced [d̪eˈmãn̪d̪a]. demandada is at rank #27,181, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪emãn̪ˈd̪að̞a].

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 28588, this pair ranks #221,264 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of demanda vs demandada

Shared letters: ademn. Private to "demanda": -. Private to "demandada": -.

"demanda" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "demandada" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • demandaddemanda · deamnda · demadna · demanad · demandda · demannda · demmanda · demnada
  • demandadaddemandada · deamndada · demadnada · demanadda · demandaad · demandadda · demanddaa · demanddada

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "demanda" for "demandada" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "demanda" is a noun and "demandada" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "demanda" or "demandada" show up more?
"demanda" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,407 in our Spanish list, against #27,181 for "demandada". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "demanda" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "demandada" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #221,264 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "demanda" and "demandada" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "demandaba vs demandada". 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 #221,264 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