excluidasvsexcluidoTell them apart

Quick tell: excluidas is a participle, excluido is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“excluidas” is a participle and “excluido” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,596
“excluidas” frequency rank
#20,678
“excluido” frequency rank
54274
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature excluidas excluido
Definition Forma del femenino plural de excluido, participio de excluir o de excluirse. Participio de excluir.

Where the eye mixes excluidas and excluido

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. excluidas runs 9 letters (VCCCVVCVC) against excluido's 8 (VCCCVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
excluidas
8 ch
excluido

Look-alike desk: excluidas vs excluido

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: excluidas is [eksˈklwið̞as] while excluido is [eksˈklwið̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54274, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

excluidas is recorded at frequency rank #33,596, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [eksˈklwið̞as]. excluido is at rank #20,678, tagged as averb, pronounced [eksˈklwið̞o].

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 54274, this pair ranks #84,067 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of excluidas vs excluido

Shared letters: cdeilux. Private to "excluidas": as. Private to "excluido": o.

"excluidas" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCVC  ·  "excluido" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • excluidasecxluidas · exccluidas · excliudas · exclluidas · excludias · excluiads · excluidass · excluiddas
  • excluidoecxluido · exccluido · excliudo · exclluido · excludio · excluiddo · excluiod · exculido

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "excluidas" for "excluido" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "excluidas" is a participle and "excluido" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "excluidas" vs "excluido" - which ranks higher?
"excluido" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,678 in our Spanish list, against #33,596 for "excluidas". 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 "excluidas" and "excluido" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "excluidas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "excluido" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #84,067 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "excluidas" and "excluido" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excluida vs excluidas". 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 #84,067 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