gozadovsgradoTell them apart

Quick tell: gozado is a verb, grado is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“gozado” is a verb and “grado” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#35,063
“gozado” frequency rank
#1,317
“grado” frequency rank
36380
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gozado grado
Definition Participio de gozar. Valor, situación, estado o calidad que una cosa puede tener, en una escala ascendente o descendente, en relación con otra.

Where the eye mixes gozado and grado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. gozado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against grado's 5 (CCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
gozado
5 ch
grado

Look-alike desk: gozado vs grado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: gozado is [goˈsað̞o] while grado is [ˈgɾað̞o]. 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 (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36380, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gozado is recorded at frequency rank #35,063, classified as averb, pronounced [goˈsað̞o]. grado is at rank #1,317, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈgɾað̞o].

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 36380, this pair ranks #180,934 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gozado vs grado

Shared letters: adgo. Private to "gozado": z. Private to "grado": r.

"gozado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "grado" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gozado ← ggozado · goazdo · gozaddo · gozaod · gozdao · gozzado · gzoado · ogzado
  • grado ← gardo · ggrado · graddo · graod · grdao · grrado · rgado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gozado" for "grado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gozado" is a verb and "grado" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "gozado" or "grado" show up more?
"grado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,317 in our Spanish list, against #35,063 for "gozado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gozado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "grado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #180,934 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gozado" and "grado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "girado vs gozado". 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 #180,934 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