difundidavsdifundióWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: difundida is a participle, difundió is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“difundida” is a participle and “difundió” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,988
“difundida” frequency rank
#19,989
“difundió” frequency rank
39977
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature difundida difundió
Definition Forma del femenino de difundido, participio 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 difundida and difundió

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. difundida runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVCV) against difundió's 8 (CVCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
difundida
8 ch
difundió

Visual trap between difundida and difundió

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: difundida is [d̪ifũn̪ˈd̪ið̞a] while difundió is [d̪ifũn̪ˈd̪jo]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39977, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

difundida is recorded at frequency rank #19,988, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪ifũn̪ˈd̪ið̞a]. 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 39977, this pair ranks #161,600 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of difundida vs difundió

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

"difundida" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "difundió" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • difundida ← ddifundida · dfiundida · diffundida · difnudida · difudnida · difunddia · difunddida · difundiad

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "difundida" and "difundió" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "difundida" is a participle and "difundió" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "difundida" or "difundió"?
"difundida" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,988 in our Spanish list, against #19,989 for "difundió". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "difundida" 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 #161,600 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "difundida" and "difundió" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "difunda vs difundió". 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 #161,600 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