# destacado vs destacando

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### destacado
*verb · IPA [d̪est̪aˈkað̞o] · frequency rank #4,236*
Participio de destacar.

### destacando
*verb · IPA [d̪est̪aˈkãn̪d̪o] · frequency rank #11,556*
Gerundio de destacar.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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