pintadasvspintadosConfusable pair

Which to use

“pintadas” and “pintados” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,761
“pintadas” frequency rank
#16,939
“pintados” frequency rank
30700
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pintadas pintados
Definition Forma del femenino plural de pintado, participio de pintar. Forma del plural de pintado, participio de pintar.

Where the eye mixes pintadas and pintados

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

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Look-alike desk: pintadas vs pintados

A purely visual mix-up. pintadas ([pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞as]) and pintados ([pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞os]) 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 “pintadas” becomes o in “pintados”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30700, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pintadas is recorded at frequency rank #13,761, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞as]. pintados is at rank #16,939, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞os].

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 30700, this pair ranks #210,720 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pintadas vs pintados

Shared letters: adinpst. Private to "pintadas": -. Private to "pintados": o.

"pintadas" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "pintados" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pintadas ← ipntadas · pinatdas · pinntadas · pintaads · pintadass · pintaddas · pintadsa · pintdaas
  • pintados ← ipntados · pinatdos · pinntados · pintaddos · pintadoss · pintadso · pintaods · pintdaos

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "pintadas" and "pintados" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently ([pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞as] versus [pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞os]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "pintadas" vs "pintados" - which ranks higher?
"pintadas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,761 in our Spanish list, against #16,939 for "pintados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "pintadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pintados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #210,720 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pintadas" and "pintados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "picados vs pintados". 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 #210,720 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