Which to use
“pintadas” is a participle and “pinturas” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #13,761
- “pintadas” frequency rank
- #6,216
- “pinturas” frequency rank
- 19977
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pintadas | pinturas |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Forma del femenino plural de pintado, participio de pintar. | Forma del plural de pintura. |
Where the eye mixes pintadas and pinturas
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. pintadas and pinturas 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 pinturas
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: pintadas is [pĩn̪ˈt̪að̞as] while pinturas is [pĩn̪ˈt̪uɾas]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19977, 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]. pinturas is at rank #6,216, tagged as anoun, pronounced [pĩn̪ˈt̪uɾas].
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 19977, this pair ranks #261,336 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of pintadas vs pinturas
Shared letters: ainpst. Private to "pintadas": d. Private to "pinturas": ru.
"pintadas" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC · "pinturas" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "pintadas" and "pinturas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Spanish text, does "pintadas" or "pinturas" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "pintadas" and "pinturas" 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 "pinturas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #261,336 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pintadas" and "pinturas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pintadas vs pintamos". 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 #261,336 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.