Which to use
“dragado” is a noun and “drogado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #45,887
- “dragado” frequency rank
- #21,647
- “drogado” frequency rank
- 67534
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dragado | drogado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Extracción de arena, lodo, piedras y otros materiales del lecho de un río, canal, puerto o zona navegable | Se dice de quien está bajo los efectos de una droga. |
Where the eye mixes dragado and drogado
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. dragado and drogado 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 drogado
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: dragado is [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞að̞o] while drogado is [d̪ɾoˈɣ̞að̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “dragado” becomes o in “drogado”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67534, 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]. drogado is at rank #21,647, tagged as anadj, pronounced [d̪ɾoˈɣ̞að̞o].
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 67534, this pair ranks #36,867 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of dragado vs drogado
Shared letters: adgor. Private to "dragado": -. Private to "drogado": -.
"dragado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "drogado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "dragado" and "drogado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Spanish text, does "dragado" or "drogado" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "dragado" and "drogado" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "dragado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "drogado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #36,867 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dragado" and "drogado" 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 #36,867 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.