premiadasvspremiadoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#47,346
“premiadas” frequency rank
#16,422
“premiado” frequency rank
63768
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Where the eye mixes premiadas and premiado

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

9 ch
premiadas
8 ch
premiado

Why the eye confuses premiadas with premiado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: premiadas is [pɾeˈmjað̞as] while premiado is [pɾeˈmjað̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63768, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

premiadas is recorded at frequency rank #47,346, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [pɾeˈmjað̞as]. 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 63768, this pair ranks #47,686 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of premiadas vs premiado

Shared letters: adeimpr. Private to "premiadas": s. Private to "premiado": o.

"premiadas" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVCVC  ·  "premiado" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • premiadaspermiadas · ppremiadas · preimadas · premaidas · premiaads · premiadass · premiaddas · premiadsa
  • premiadopermiado · ppremiado · preimado · premaido · premiaddo · premiaod · premidao · premmiado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "premiadas" for "premiado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "premiadas" is a participle and "premiado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "premiadas" or "premiado"?
"premiado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,422 in our Spanish list, against #47,346 for "premiadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "premiadas" 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 #47,686 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "premiadas" and "premiado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "premiadas vs prestadas". 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 #47,686 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