garantizadovsgarantizadosWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#12,608
“garantizado” frequency rank
#25,654
“garantizados” frequency rank
38262
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature garantizado garantizados
Definition Participio de garantizar. Forma del plural de garantizado, participio de garantizar.

Where the eye mixes garantizado and garantizados

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. garantizado runs 11 letters (CVCVCCVCVCV) against garantizados's 12 (CVCVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
garantizado
12 ch
garantizados

Visual trap between garantizado and garantizados

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: garantizado is [gaɾãn̪t̪iˈsað̞o] while garantizados is [gaɾãn̪t̪iˈsað̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “garantizado” sits inside “garantizados”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38262, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

garantizado is recorded at frequency rank #12,608, classified as averb, pronounced [gaɾãn̪t̪iˈsað̞o]. garantizados is at rank #25,654, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [gaɾãn̪t̪iˈsað̞os].

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 38262, this pair ranks #170,978 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of garantizado vs garantizados

Shared letters: adginortz. Private to "garantizado": -. Private to "garantizados": s.

"garantizado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVCV  ·  "garantizados" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • garantizado ← agrantizado · gaarntizado · garanitzado · garanntizado · garantiazdo · garantizaddo · garantizaod · garantizdao
  • garantizados ← agrantizados · gaarntizados · garanitzados · garanntizados · garantiazdos · garantizaddos · garantizadoss · garantizadso

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "garantizado" for "garantizados" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "garantizado" is a verb and "garantizados" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "garantizado" vs "garantizados" - which ranks higher?
"garantizado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,608 in our Spanish list, against #25,654 for "garantizados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "garantizado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "garantizados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #170,978 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "garantizado" and "garantizados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "garantizadas vs garantizados". 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 #170,978 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