paganasvspáginaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: paganas is a adjective, página is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#48,569
“paganas” frequency rank
#634
“página” frequency rank
49203
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature paganas página
Definition Forma del femenino plural de pagano. Cada una de las dos caras de una hoja impresa.

Where the eye mixes paganas and página

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. paganas runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against página's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
paganas
6 ch
página

Why the eye confuses paganas with página

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: paganas is [paˈɣ̞anas] while página is [ˈpaxina]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49203, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

paganas is recorded at frequency rank #48,569, classified as anadj, pronounced [paˈɣ̞anas]. página is at rank #634, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈpaxina].

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 49203, this pair ranks #110,158 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of paganas vs página

Shared letters: agnp. Private to "paganas": s. Private to "página": iá.

"paganas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "página" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • paganas ← apganas · paagnas · pagaans · paganass · pagannas · pagansa · pagganas · pagnaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "paganas" for "página" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "paganas" is an adjective and "página" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "paganas" or "página" show up more?
"página" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #634 in our Spanish list, against #48,569 for "paganas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "paganas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "página" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #110,158 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "paganas" and "página" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "paganas vs patrañas". 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 #110,158 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