mágicosvsmasivosTell them apart

Quick tell: mágicos is a noun, masivos is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mágicos” is a noun and “masivos” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,964
“mágicos” frequency rank
#12,423
“masivos” frequency rank
26387
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mágicos masivos
Definition Forma del plural de mágico. Forma del plural de masivo.

Where the eye mixes mágicos and masivos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. mágicos and masivos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
mágicos
7 ch
masivos

Visual trap between mágicos and masivos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mágicos is [ˈmaxikos] while masivos is [maˈsiβ̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26387, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mágicos is recorded at frequency rank #13,964, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈmaxikos]. masivos is at rank #12,423, tagged as anadj, pronounced [maˈsiβ̞os].

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 26387, this pair ranks #231,877 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mágicos vs masivos

Shared letters: imos. Private to "mágicos": cgá. Private to "masivos": av.

"mágicos" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "masivos" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • masivosamsivos · macivos · maisvos · masibos · masiovs · masivoss · masivso · masivvos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mágicos" and "masivos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mágicos" is a noun and "masivos" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mágicos" vs "masivos" - which ranks higher?
"masivos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,423 in our Spanish list, against #13,964 for "mágicos". 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 "mágicos" and "masivos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mágicos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "masivos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #231,877 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mágicos" and "masivos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "macizos vs mágicos". 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 #231,877 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