documentadasvsdocumentadoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#32,625
“documentadas” frequency rank
#12,807
“documentado” frequency rank
45432
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature documentadas documentado
Definition Forma del femenino plural de documentado, participio de documentar. Participio de documentar.

Where the eye mixes documentadas and documentado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence.

12 ch
documentadas
11 ch
documentado

Why the eye confuses documentadas with documentado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: documentadas is [d̪okumẽn̪ˈt̪að̞as] while documentado is [d̪okumẽn̪ˈt̪að̞o]. 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 45432, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

documentadas is recorded at frequency rank #32,625, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪okumẽn̪ˈt̪að̞as]. documentado is at rank #12,807, tagged as averb, pronounced [d̪okumẽn̪ˈt̪að̞o].

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 45432, this pair ranks #131,460 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of documentadas vs documentado

Shared letters: acdemnotu. Private to "documentadas": s. Private to "documentado": -.

"documentadas" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCVC  ·  "documentado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • documentadasdcoumentadas · ddocumentadas · doccumentadas · docmuentadas · docuemntadas · documenatdas · documenntadas · documentaads
  • documentadodcoumentado · ddocumentado · doccumentado · docmuentado · docuemntado · documenatdo · documenntado · documentaddo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "documentadas" and "documentado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "documentadas" is a participle and "documentado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "documentadas" or "documentado" show up more?
"documentado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,807 in our Spanish list, against #32,625 for "documentadas". 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 "documentadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "documentado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #131,460 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "documentadas" and "documentado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "documentado vs documentan". 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 #131,460 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