Which to use
“dragado” is a noun and “drogada” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #45,887
- “dragado” frequency rank
- #38,661
- “drogada” frequency rank
- 84548
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dragado | drogada |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Extracción de arena, lodo, piedras y otros materiales del lecho de un río, canal, puerto o zona navegable | Forma del femenino de drogado, participio de drogar o de drogarse. |
Where the eye mixes dragado and drogada
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. dragado and drogada follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses dragado with drogada
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: dragado is [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞að̞o] while drogada is [d̪ɾoˈɣ̞að̞a]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84548, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
dragado is recorded at frequency rank #45,887, classified as anoun, pronounced [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞að̞o]. drogada is at rank #38,661, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪ɾoˈɣ̞að̞a].
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 84548, this pair ranks #6,955 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of dragado vs drogada
Shared letters: adgor. Private to "dragado": -. Private to "drogada": -.
"dragado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "drogada" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "dragado" and "drogada" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary Spanish text, does "dragado" or "drogada" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "dragado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "drogada" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #6,955 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dragado" and "drogada" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dragado vs drogados". 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 #6,955 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.