enojadosvsenojosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: enojados is a participle, enojos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“enojados” is a participle and “enojos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,392
“enojados” frequency rank
#47,772
“enojos” frequency rank
67164
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature enojados enojos
Definition Forma del plural de enojado, participio de enojar o de enojarse. Forma del plural de enojo.

Where the eye mixes enojados and enojos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. enojados runs 8 letters (VCVCVCVC) against enojos's 6 (VCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
enojados
6 ch
enojos

Look-alike desk: enojados vs enojos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: enojados is [enoˈxað̞os] while enojos is [eˈnoxos]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67164, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

enojados is recorded at frequency rank #19,392, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [enoˈxað̞os]. enojos is at rank #47,772, tagged as anoun, pronounced [eˈnoxos].

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 67164, this pair ranks #37,871 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of enojados vs enojos

Shared letters: ejnos. Private to "enojados": ad. Private to "enojos": -.

"enojados" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC  ·  "enojos" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • enojadosenjoados · ennojados · enoajdos · enojaddos · enojadoss · enojadso · enojaods · enojdaos
  • enojosenjoos · ennojos · enojjos · enojoss · enojso · enoojs · eonjos · neojos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "enojados" and "enojos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "enojados" is a participle and "enojos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "enojados" vs "enojos" - which ranks higher?
"enojados" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,392 in our Spanish list, against #47,772 for "enojos". 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 "enojados" and "enojos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "enojados" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "enojos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #37,871 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "enojados" and "enojos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enjoy vs enojos". 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 #37,871 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