permitidasvspermitiránWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#27,717
“permitidas” frequency rank
#17,512
“permitirán” frequency rank
45229
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature permitidas permitirán
Definition Forma del femenino plural de permitido, participio de permitir. Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de permitir o de permitirse.

Where the eye mixes permitidas and permitirán

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. permitidas and permitirán follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
permitidas
10 ch
permitirán

Visual trap between permitidas and permitirán

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: permitidas is [peɾmiˈt̪ið̞as] while permitirán is [peɾmit̪iˈɾãn]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45229, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

permitidas is recorded at frequency rank #27,717, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [peɾmiˈt̪ið̞as]. permitirán is at rank #17,512, tagged as averb, pronounced [peɾmit̪iˈɾãn].

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 45229, this pair ranks #132,636 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of permitidas vs permitirán

Shared letters: eimprt. Private to "permitidas": ads. Private to "permitirán": ná.

"permitidas" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC  ·  "permitirán" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • permitidas ← eprmitidas · pemritidas · perimtidas · permiitdas · permitdias · permitiads · permitidass · permitiddas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "permitidas" for "permitirán" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "permitidas" is a participle and "permitirán" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "permitidas" vs "permitirán" - which ranks higher?
"permitirán" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,512 in our Spanish list, against #27,717 for "permitidas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "permitidas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "permitirán" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #132,636 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "permitidas" and "permitirán" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "percibidas vs permitidas". 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 #132,636 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