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

#45,353
“habilitadas” frequency rank
#25,299
“habilitados” frequency rank
70652
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature habilitadas habilitados
Definition Forma del plural de habilitada. Forma del plural de habilitado.

Where the eye mixes habilitadas and habilitados

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. habilitadas and habilitados follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

11 ch
habilitadas
11 ch
habilitados

Look-alike desk: habilitadas vs habilitados

A purely visual mix-up. habilitadas ([aβ̞iliˈt̪að̞as]) and habilitados ([aβ̞iliˈt̪að̞os]) 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 “habilitadas” becomes o in “habilitados”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70652, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

habilitadas is recorded at frequency rank #45,353, classified as anoun, pronounced [aβ̞iliˈt̪að̞as]. habilitados is at rank #25,299, tagged as anoun, pronounced [aβ̞iliˈt̪að̞os].

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 70652, this pair ranks #29,219 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of habilitadas vs habilitados

Shared letters: abdhilst. Private to "habilitadas": -. Private to "habilitados": o.

"habilitadas" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVC  ·  "habilitados" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • habilitadas ← ahbilitadas · habbilitadas · habiiltadas · habiliatdas · habilitaads · habilitadass · habilitaddas · habilitadsa
  • habilitados ← ahbilitados · habbilitados · habiiltados · habiliatdos · habilitaddos · habilitadoss · habilitadso · habilitaods

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "habilitadas" for "habilitados" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([aβ̞iliˈt̪að̞as] versus [aβ̞iliˈt̪að̞os]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "habilitadas" vs "habilitados" - which ranks higher?
"habilitados" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,299 in our Spanish list, against #45,353 for "habilitadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "habilitadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "habilitados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,219 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "habilitadas" and "habilitados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habilitadas vs habitadas". 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 #29,219 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