Which to use
“habitada” is a participle and “habitado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #26,466
- “habitada” frequency rank
- #23,802
- “habitado” frequency rank
- 50268
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habitada | habitado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Forma del femenino de habitado, participio de habitar. | Que vive gente allí. |
Where the eye mixes habitada and habitado
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. habitada and habitado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: habitada vs habitado
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: habitada is [aβ̞iˈt̪að̞a] while habitado is [aβ̞iˈt̪að̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “habitada” becomes o in “habitado”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50268, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habitada is recorded at frequency rank #26,466, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [aβ̞iˈt̪að̞a]. habitado is at rank #23,802, tagged as anadj, pronounced [aβ̞iˈt̪að̞o].
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 50268, this pair ranks #104,139 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of habitada vs habitado
Shared letters: abdhit. Private to "habitada": -. Private to "habitado": o.
"habitada" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "habitado" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "habitada" and "habitado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "habitada" vs "habitado" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "habitada" and "habitado" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "habitada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habitado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #104,139 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habitada" and "habitado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habitado vs habitamos". 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 #104,139 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.