pasarásvspesadasTell them apart

Quick tell: pasarás is a verb, pesadas is a participle, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“pasarás” is a verb and “pesadas” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,994
“pasarás” frequency rank
#13,114
“pesadas” frequency rank
54108
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pasarás pesadas
Definition Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del futuro de indicativo de pasar. Forma del femenino plural de pesado, participio de pesar.

Where the eye mixes pasarás and pesadas

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

7 ch
pasarás
7 ch
pesadas

Visual trap between pasarás and pesadas

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: pasarás is [pasaˈɾas] while pesadas is [peˈsað̞as]. 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 (verb vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54108, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pasarás is recorded at frequency rank #40,994, classified as averb, pronounced [pasaˈɾas]. pesadas is at rank #13,114, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [peˈsað̞as].

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 54108, this pair ranks #84,767 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pasarás vs pesadas

Shared letters: aps. Private to "pasarás": rá. Private to "pesadas": de.

"pasarás" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "pesadas" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pesadas ← peasdas · pesaads · pesadass · pesaddas · pesadsa · pesdaas · pessadas · ppesadas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pasarás" and "pesadas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pasarás" is a verb and "pesadas" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "pasarás" vs "pesadas" - which ranks higher?
"pesadas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,114 in our Spanish list, against #40,994 for "pasarás". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "pasarás" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pesadas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #84,767 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pasarás" and "pesadas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pajares vs pasarás". 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 #84,767 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