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“guardadas” and “guardados” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#27,623
“guardadas” frequency rank
#21,352
“guardados” frequency rank
48975
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guardadas guardados
Definition Forma del femenino plural de guardado, participio de guardar o de guardarse. Forma del plural de guardado, participio de guardar o de guardarse.

Where the eye mixes guardadas and guardados

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. guardadas and guardados follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
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9 ch
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Look-alike desk: guardadas vs guardados

A purely visual mix-up. guardadas ([gwaɾˈð̞að̞as]) and guardados ([gwaɾˈð̞að̞os]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - a in “guardadas” becomes o in “guardados”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48975, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guardadas is recorded at frequency rank #27,623, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [gwaɾˈð̞að̞as]. guardados is at rank #21,352, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [gwaɾˈð̞að̞os].

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 48975, this pair ranks #111,474 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guardadas vs guardados

Shared letters: adgrsu. Private to "guardadas": -. Private to "guardados": o.

"guardadas" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC  ·  "guardados" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guardadas ← gaurdadas · gguardadas · guadradas · guaraddas · guardaads · guardadass · guardaddas · guardadsa
  • guardados ← gaurdados · gguardados · guadrados · guaraddos · guardaddos · guardadoss · guardadso · guardaods

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guardadas" and "guardados" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently ([gwaɾˈð̞að̞as] versus [gwaɾˈð̞að̞os]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "guardadas" or "guardados"?
"guardados" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,352 in our Spanish list, against #27,623 for "guardadas". 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 "guardadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guardados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #111,474 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guardadas" and "guardados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guardadas vs guardará". 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 #111,474 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