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

#28,412
“injustos” frequency rank
#6,424
“insultos” frequency rank
34836
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injustos insultos
Definition Forma del plural de injusto. Forma del plural de insulto.

Where the eye mixes injustos and insultos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. injustos and insultos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
injustos
8 ch
insultos

Why the eye confuses injustos with insultos

A purely visual mix-up. injustos ([ĩŋˈxust̪os]) and insultos ([ĩnˈsul̪t̪os]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34836, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injustos is recorded at frequency rank #28,412, classified as anoun, pronounced [ĩŋˈxust̪os]. insultos is at rank #6,424, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ĩnˈsul̪t̪os].

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 34836, this pair ranks #189,286 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of injustos vs insultos

Shared letters: inostu. Private to "injustos": j. Private to "insultos": l.

"injustos" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "insultos" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • injustos ← ijnustos · injjustos · injsutos · injusots · injusstos · injustoss · injustso · injusttos
  • insultos ← innsultos · inslutos · inssultos · insulltos · insulots · insultoss · insultso · insulttos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "injustos" and "insultos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([ĩŋˈxust̪os] versus [ĩnˈsul̪t̪os]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "injustos" vs "insultos" - which ranks higher?
"insultos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,424 in our Spanish list, against #28,412 for "injustos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "injustos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "insultos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #189,286 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injustos" and "insultos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "injertos vs injustos". 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 #189,286 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