premiadavspremiadoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#24,607
“premiada” frequency rank
#16,422
“premiado” frequency rank
41029
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature premiada premiado
Definition Forma del femenino de premiado, participio de premiar. Participio de premiar.

Where the eye mixes premiada and premiado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
premiada
8 ch
premiado

Look-alike desk: premiada vs premiado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: premiada is [pɾeˈmjað̞a] while premiado is [pɾeˈmjað̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “premiada” becomes o in “premiado”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41029, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

premiada is recorded at frequency rank #24,607, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [pɾeˈmjað̞a]. premiado is at rank #16,422, tagged as averb, pronounced [pɾeˈmjað̞o].

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 41029, this pair ranks #155,879 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of premiada vs premiado

Shared letters: adeimpr. Private to "premiada": -. Private to "premiado": o.

"premiada" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVVCV  ·  "premiado" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • premiadapermiada · ppremiada · preimada · premaida · premiaad · premiadda · premidaa · premmiada
  • premiadopermiado · ppremiado · preimado · premaido · premiaddo · premiaod · premidao · premmiado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "premiada" for "premiado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "premiada" is a participle and "premiado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "premiada" or "premiado" show up more?
"premiado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,422 in our Spanish list, against #24,607 for "premiada". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "premiada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "premiado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #155,879 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "premiada" and "premiado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "premiada vs premian". 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 #155,879 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