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

#26,836
“excesivas” frequency rank
#25,636
“excesivos” frequency rank
52472
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature excesivas excesivos
Definition Forma del femenino plural de excesivo. Forma del plural de excesivo.

Where the eye mixes excesivas and excesivos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence.

9 ch
excesivas
9 ch
excesivos

Why the eye confuses excesivas with excesivos

A purely visual mix-up. excesivas ([ekseˈsiβ̞as]) and excesivos ([ekseˈsiβ̞os]) 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 a single letter - a in “excesivas” becomes o in “excesivos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52472, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

excesivas is recorded at frequency rank #26,836, classified as anadj, pronounced [ekseˈsiβ̞as]. excesivos is at rank #25,636, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ekseˈsiβ̞os].

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 52472, this pair ranks #92,522 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of excesivas vs excesivos

Shared letters: ceisvx. Private to "excesivas": a. Private to "excesivos": o.

"excesivas" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC  ·  "excesivos" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • excesivasecxesivas · exccesivas · excecivas · exceisvas · excesiavs · excesibas · excesivass · excesivsa
  • excesivosecxesivos · exccesivos · excecivos · exceisvos · excesibos · excesiovs · excesivoss · excesivso

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "excesivas" and "excesivos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([ekseˈsiβ̞as] versus [ekseˈsiβ̞os]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "excesivas" or "excesivos" show up more?
"excesivos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,636 in our Spanish list, against #26,836 for "excesivas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "excesivas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "excesivos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #92,522 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "excesivas" and "excesivos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excesivos vs expresivos". 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 #92,522 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