producidovsproducidosTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#3,008
“producido” frequency rank
#9,707
“producidos” frequency rank
12715
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature producido producidos
Definition Participio de producir. Forma del plural de producido, participio de producir.

Where the eye mixes producido and producidos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. producido runs 9 letters (CCVCVCVCV) against producidos's 10 (CCVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
producido
10 ch
producidos

Look-alike desk: producido vs producidos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: producido is [pɾoð̞uˈsið̞o] while producidos is [pɾoð̞uˈsið̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “producido” sits inside “producidos”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12715, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

producido is recorded at frequency rank #3,008, classified as averb, pronounced [pɾoð̞uˈsið̞o]. producidos is at rank #9,707, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [pɾoð̞uˈsið̞os].

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 12715, this pair ranks #290,535 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of producido vs producidos

Shared letters: cdiopru. Private to "producido": -. Private to "producidos": s.

"producido" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVCV  ·  "producidos" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • producido ← porducido · pproducido · prdoucido · prodcuido · prodducido · produccido · producdio · produciddo
  • producidos ← porducidos · pproducidos · prdoucidos · prodcuidos · prodducidos · produccidos · producdios · produciddos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "producido" for "producidos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "producido" is a verb and "producidos" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "producido" or "producidos" show up more?
"producido" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,008 in our Spanish list, against #9,707 for "producidos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "producido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "producidos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #290,535 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "producido" and "producidos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "producidos vs producimos". 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 #290,535 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