exportadovsexportadosTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#32,207
“exportado” frequency rank
#41,907
“exportados” frequency rank
74114
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exportado exportados
Definition Participio de exportar. Forma del plural de exportado, participio de exportar.

Where the eye mixes exportado and exportados

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence.

9 ch
exportado
10 ch
exportados

Visual trap between exportado and exportados

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: exportado is [ekspoɾˈt̪að̞o] while exportados is [ekspoɾˈt̪að̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “exportado” sits inside “exportados”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74114, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exportado is recorded at frequency rank #32,207, classified as averb, pronounced [ekspoɾˈt̪að̞o]. exportados is at rank #41,907, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [ekspoɾˈt̪að̞os].

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 74114, this pair ranks #21,944 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exportado vs exportados

Shared letters: adeoprtx. Private to "exportado": -. Private to "exportados": s.

"exportado" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV  ·  "exportados" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exportadoepxortado · exoprtado · exporatdo · exporrtado · exportaddo · exportaod · exportdao · exporttado
  • exportadosepxortados · exoprtados · exporatdos · exporrtados · exportaddos · exportadoss · exportadso · exportaods

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exportado" and "exportados" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "exportado" is a verb and "exportados" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "exportado" or "exportados"?
"exportado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,207 in our Spanish list, against #41,907 for "exportados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "exportado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exportados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,944 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exportado" and "exportados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exportados vs exportando". 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 #21,944 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