facilitadavsfacilitanWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#40,308
“facilitada” frequency rank
#17,704
“facilitan” frequency rank
58012
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature facilitada facilitan
Definition Forma del femenino de facilitado, participio de facilitar. Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de facilitar.

Where the eye mixes facilitada and facilitan

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. facilitada runs 10 letters (CVCVCVCVCV) against facilitan's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
facilitada
9 ch
facilitan

Look-alike desk: facilitada vs facilitan

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: facilitada is [fasiliˈt̪að̞a] while facilitan is [fasiˈlit̪ãn]. 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 58012, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

facilitada is recorded at frequency rank #40,308, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [fasiliˈt̪að̞a]. facilitan is at rank #17,704, tagged as averb, pronounced [fasiˈlit̪ãn].

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 58012, this pair ranks #68,121 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of facilitada vs facilitan

Shared letters: acfilt. Private to "facilitada": d. Private to "facilitan": n.

"facilitada" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCV  ·  "facilitan" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • facilitada ← afcilitada · faccilitada · faciiltada · faciliatda · facilitaad · facilitadda · facilitdaa · facilittada
  • facilitan ← afcilitan · faccilitan · faciiltan · faciliatn · facilitann · facilitna · facilittan · facillitan

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "facilitada" for "facilitan" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "facilitada" is a participle and "facilitan" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "facilitada" vs "facilitan" - which ranks higher?
"facilitan" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,704 in our Spanish list, against #40,308 for "facilitada". 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 "facilitada" and "facilitan" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "facilitada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "facilitan" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,121 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "facilitada" and "facilitan" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "facilitaba vs facilitada". 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 #68,121 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