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

#18,792
“designada” frequency rank
#33,072
“designadas” frequency rank
51864
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature designada designadas
Definition Forma del femenino de designado, participio de designar. Forma del femenino plural de designado, participio de designar.

Where the eye mixes designada and designadas

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence.

9 ch
designada
10 ch
designadas

Visual trap between designada and designadas

A purely visual mix-up. designada ([d̪esiɣ̞ˈnað̞a]) and designadas ([d̪esiɣ̞ˈnað̞as]) 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) - “designada” sits inside “designadas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51864, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

designada is recorded at frequency rank #18,792, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪esiɣ̞ˈnað̞a]. designadas is at rank #33,072, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪esiɣ̞ˈnað̞as].

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 51864, this pair ranks #95,640 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of designada vs designadas

Shared letters: adegins. Private to "designada": -. Private to "designadas": -.

"designada" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "designadas" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • designadaddesignada · decignada · deisgnada · desginada · desiganda · desiggnada · designaad · designadda
  • designadasddesignadas · decignadas · deisgnadas · desginadas · desigandas · desiggnadas · designaads · designadass

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "designada" and "designadas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([d̪esiɣ̞ˈnað̞a] versus [d̪esiɣ̞ˈnað̞as]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "designada" or "designadas"?
"designada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,792 in our Spanish list, against #33,072 for "designadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "designada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "designadas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #95,640 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "designada" and "designadas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "designada vs designan". 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 #95,640 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