jirafasvsjuradasWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: jirafas is a noun, juradas is a participle, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“jirafas” is a noun and “juradas” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,749
“jirafas” frequency rank
#41,448
“juradas” frequency rank
91197
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature jirafas juradas
Definition Forma del plural de jirafa. Forma del femenino plural de jurado, participio de jurar.

Where the eye mixes jirafas and juradas

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. jirafas and juradas follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
jirafas
7 ch
juradas

Visual trap between jirafas and juradas

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: jirafas is [xiˈɾafas] while juradas is [xuˈɾað̞as]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91197, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

jirafas is recorded at frequency rank #49,749, classified as anoun, pronounced [xiˈɾafas]. juradas is at rank #41,448, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [xuˈɾað̞as].

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 91197, this pair ranks #2,105 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of jirafas vs juradas

Shared letters: ajrs. Private to "jirafas": fi. Private to "juradas": du.

"jirafas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "juradas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • jirafasijrafas · jiarfas · jiraafs · jirafass · jiraffas · jirafsa · jirfaas · jirrafas
  • juradasjjuradas · jruadas · juardas · juraads · juradass · juraddas · juradsa · jurdaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "jirafas" for "juradas" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "jirafas" is a noun and "juradas" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "jirafas" or "juradas" show up more?
"juradas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,448 in our Spanish list, against #49,749 for "jirafas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "jirafas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "juradas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #2,105 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "jirafas" and "juradas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jugabas vs juradas". 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 #2,105 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