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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "pintadas" and "pintados" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "pintadas" vs "pintados" - which ranks higher?
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.