Which to use
“medidas” and “medidos” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #897
- “medidas” frequency rank
- #40,950
- “medidos” frequency rank
- 41847
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | medidas | medidos |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Forma del femenino plural de medido, participio de medir. | Forma del plural de medido, participio de medir. |
Where the eye mixes medidas and medidos
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. medidas and medidos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses medidas with medidos
A purely visual mix-up. medidas ([meˈð̞ið̞as]) and medidos ([meˈð̞ið̞os]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - a in “medidas” becomes o in “medidos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41847, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
medidas is recorded at frequency rank #897, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [meˈð̞ið̞as]. medidos is at rank #40,950, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [meˈð̞ið̞os].
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 41847, this pair ranks #151,461 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of medidas vs medidos
Shared letters: deims. Private to "medidas": a. Private to "medidos": o.
"medidas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "medidos" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "medidas" and "medidos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "medidas" or "medidos"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "medidas" and "medidos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "medidas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "medidos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #151,461 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "medidas" and "medidos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "medidos vs medimos". 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 #151,461 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.