exigidosvsexigimosWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#29,651
“exigidos” frequency rank
#15,372
“exigimos” frequency rank
45023
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exigidos exigimos
Definition Forma del plural de exigido, participio de exigir. Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de exigir.

Where the eye mixes exigidos and exigimos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. exigidos and exigimos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
exigidos
8 ch
exigimos

Look-alike desk: exigidos vs exigimos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: exigidos is [eksiˈxið̞os] while exigimos is [eksiˈximos]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - d in “exigidos” becomes m in “exigimos”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45023, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exigidos is recorded at frequency rank #29,651, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [eksiˈxið̞os]. exigimos is at rank #15,372, tagged as averb, pronounced [eksiˈximos].

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 45023, this pair ranks #133,799 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of exigidos vs exigimos

Shared letters: egiosx. Private to "exigidos": d. Private to "exigimos": m.

"exigidos" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC  ·  "exigimos" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exigidos ← eixgidos · exgiidos · exigdios · exiggidos · exigiddos · exigidoss · exigidso · exigiods
  • exigimos ← eixgimos · exgiimos · exiggimos · exigimmos · exigimoss · exigimso · exigioms · exigmios

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exigidos" and "exigimos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "exigidos" is a participle and "exigimos" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "exigidos" or "exigimos" show up more?
"exigimos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,372 in our Spanish list, against #29,651 for "exigidos". 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 "exigidos" and "exigimos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exigidos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exigimos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #133,799 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exigidos" and "exigimos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exhibidos vs exigidos". 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 #133,799 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