# destacado vs destacar

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### destacar
*verb · IPA [d̪est̪aˈkaɾ] · frequency rank #3,479*
Poner de relieve, resaltar, llamar la atención.

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