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“envía” and “enviada” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#4,420
“envía” frequency rank
#9,811
“enviada” frequency rank
14231
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature envía enviada
Definition Envidia. Acción o efecto de enviar.

Where the eye mixes envía and enviada

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

5 ch
envía
7 ch
enviada

Visual trap between envía and enviada

A purely visual mix-up. envía ([ẽmˈbia]) and enviada ([ẽmˈbjað̞a]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14231, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

envía is recorded at frequency rank #4,420, classified as anoun, pronounced [ẽmˈbia]. enviada is at rank #9,811, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ẽmˈbjað̞a].

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 14231, this pair ranks #284,938 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of envía vs enviada

Shared letters: aenv. Private to "envía": í. Private to "enviada": di.

"envía" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV  ·  "enviada" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • enviadaenbiada · enivada · ennviada · envaida · enviaad · enviadda · envidaa · envviada

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "envía" for "enviada" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ẽmˈbia] versus [ẽmˈbjað̞a]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "envía" vs "enviada" - which ranks higher?
"envía" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,420 in our Spanish list, against #9,811 for "enviada". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "envía" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "enviada" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #284,938 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "envía" and "enviada" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enviada vs envigado". 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 #284,938 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