enamoradavsenamoradoTell them apart

Quick tell: enamorada is a participle, enamorado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“enamorada” is a participle and “enamorado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,776
“enamorada” frequency rank
#4,329
“enamorado” frequency rank
11105
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature enamorada enamorado
Definition Forma del femenino de enamorado, participio de enamorar o de enamorarse. Que siente o tiene un amor profundo.

Where the eye mixes enamorada and enamorado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. enamorada and enamorado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
enamorada
9 ch
enamorado

Look-alike desk: enamorada vs enamorado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: enamorada is [enamoˈɾað̞a] while enamorado is [enamoˈɾað̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “enamorada” becomes o in “enamorado”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11105, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

enamorada is recorded at frequency rank #6,776, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [enamoˈɾað̞a]. enamorado is at rank #4,329, tagged as anadj, pronounced [enamoˈɾað̞o].

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 11105, this pair ranks #296,251 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of enamorada vs enamorado

Shared letters: ademnor. Private to "enamorada": -. Private to "enamorado": -.

"enamorada" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVCV  ·  "enamorado" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • enamorada ← eanmorada · enammorada · enamoarda · enamoraad · enamoradda · enamordaa · enamorrada · enamroada
  • enamorado ← eanmorado · enammorado · enamoardo · enamoraddo · enamoraod · enamordao · enamorrado · enamroado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "enamorada" for "enamorado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "enamorada" is a participle and "enamorado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "enamorada" or "enamorado" show up more?
"enamorado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,329 in our Spanish list, against #6,776 for "enamorada". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "enamorada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "enamorado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #296,251 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "enamorada" and "enamorado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enamorado vs enamoramos". 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 #296,251 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