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Which to use

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

#27,195
“difundan” frequency rank
#19,989
“difundió” frequency rank
47184
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature difundan difundió
Definition Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de difundir. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de difundir.

Where the eye mixes difundan and difundió

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. difundan (CVCVCCVC) and difundió (CVCVCCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
difundan
8 ch
difundió

Visual trap between difundan and difundió

A purely visual mix-up. difundan ([d̪iˈfũn̪d̪ãn]) and difundió ([d̪ifũn̪ˈd̪jo]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47184, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

difundan is recorded at frequency rank #27,195, classified as averb, pronounced [d̪iˈfũn̪d̪ãn]. difundió is at rank #19,989, tagged as averb, pronounced [d̪ifũn̪ˈd̪jo].

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 47184, this pair ranks #121,472 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of difundan vs difundió

Shared letters: dfinu. Private to "difundan": a. Private to "difundió": ó.

"difundan" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "difundió" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • difundan ← ddifundan · dfiundan · diffundan · difnudan · difudnan · difunadn · difundann · difunddan

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "difundan" and "difundió" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently ([d̪iˈfũn̪d̪ãn] versus [d̪ifũn̪ˈd̪jo]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "difundan" vs "difundió" - which ranks higher?
"difundió" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,989 in our Spanish list, against #27,195 for "difundan". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "difundan" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "difundió" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #121,472 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "difundan" and "difundió" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "difunda vs difundan". 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 #121,472 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