premiovspremisaWhat's the difference?

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

#974
“premio” frequency rank
#11,114
“premisa” frequency rank
12088
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature premio premisa
Definition Retribución honorífica que se concede a uno por sus méritos Principio por el cual se logran inferencias y alcanzan conclusiones.

Where the eye mixes premio and premisa

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
premio
7 ch
premisa

Look-alike desk: premio vs premisa

A purely visual mix-up. premio ([ˈpɾemjo]) and premisa ([pɾeˈmisa]) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12088, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

premio is recorded at frequency rank #974, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈpɾemjo]. premisa is at rank #11,114, tagged as anoun, pronounced [pɾeˈmisa].

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 12088, this pair ranks #292,785 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of premio vs premisa

Shared letters: eimpr. Private to "premio": o. Private to "premisa": as.

"premio" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV  ·  "premisa" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • premiopermio · ppremio · preimo · premmio · premoi · prmeio · prremio · rpemio
  • premisapermisa · ppremisa · preimsa · premias · premissa · premmisa · premsia · prmeisa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "premio" and "premisa" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([ˈpɾemjo] versus [pɾeˈmisa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "premio" or "premisa" show up more?
"premio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #974 in our Spanish list, against #11,114 for "premisa". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "premio" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "premisa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #292,785 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "premio" and "premisa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "premian vs premisa". 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 #292,785 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