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

#1,943
“llevado” frequency rank
#35,128
“llovido” frequency rank
37071
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature llevado llovido
Definition Participio de llevar o de llevarse. Participio de llover o de lloverse.

Where the eye mixes llevado and llovido

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

7 ch
llevado
7 ch
llovido

Visual trap between llevado and llovido

A purely visual mix-up. llevado ([ʝeˈβ̞að̞o]) and llovido ([ʝoˈβ̞ið̞o]) 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 37071, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

llevado is recorded at frequency rank #1,943, classified as averb, pronounced [ʝeˈβ̞að̞o]. llovido is at rank #35,128, tagged as averb, pronounced [ʝoˈβ̞ið̞o].

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 37071, this pair ranks #177,258 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of llevado vs llovido

Shared letters: dlov. Private to "llevado": ae. Private to "llovido": i.

"llevado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV  ·  "llovido" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • llevado ← lelvado · levado · lleavdo · llebado · llevaddo · llevaod · llevdao · llevvado
  • llovido ← llobido · lloivdo · llovdio · lloviddo · lloviod · llovvido · llvoido · lolvido

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "llevado" for "llovido" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ʝeˈβ̞að̞o] versus [ʝoˈβ̞ið̞o]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "llevado" or "llovido" show up more?
"llevado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,943 in our Spanish list, against #35,128 for "llovido". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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 "llevado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "llovido" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #177,258 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "llevado" and "llovido" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "llovía vs llovido". 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 #177,258 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