maravilladovsmaravillosoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: maravillado is a verb, maravilloso is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“maravillado” is a verb and “maravilloso” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,251
“maravillado” frequency rank
#3,718
“maravilloso” frequency rank
50969
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature maravillado maravilloso
Definition Participio de maravillar. Que suscita admiración, sorpresa o estupor

Where the eye mixes maravillado and maravilloso

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. maravillado and maravilloso follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

11 ch
maravillado
11 ch
maravilloso

Why the eye confuses maravillado with maravilloso

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: maravillado is [maɾaβ̞iˈʝað̞o] while maravilloso is [maɾaβ̞iˈʝoso]. 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 (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50969, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

maravillado is recorded at frequency rank #47,251, classified as averb, pronounced [maɾaβ̞iˈʝað̞o]. maravilloso is at rank #3,718, tagged as anadj, pronounced [maɾaβ̞iˈʝoso].

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 50969, this pair ranks #100,392 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of maravillado vs maravilloso

Shared letters: ailmorv. Private to "maravillado": d. Private to "maravilloso": s.

"maravillado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV  ·  "maravilloso" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • maravilladoamravillado · maarvillado · marabillado · maraivllado · maravilado · maravilaldo · maravilladdo · maravillaod
  • maravillosoamravilloso · maarvilloso · marabilloso · maraivlloso · maravilloos · maravillosso · maravillsoo · maravilolso

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "maravillado" and "maravilloso" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "maravillado" is a verb and "maravilloso" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "maravillado" vs "maravilloso" - which ranks higher?
"maravilloso" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,718 in our Spanish list, against #47,251 for "maravillado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "maravillado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "maravilloso" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #100,392 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "maravillado" and "maravilloso" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maravillado vs maravillas". 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 #100,392 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