readyvsrendíTell them apart

Quick tell: ready is a adjective, rendí is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ready” is an adjective and “rendí” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,166
“ready” frequency rank
#41,040
“rendí” frequency rank
63206
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ready rendí
Definition Listo, preparado. Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de rendir o de rendirse.

Where the eye mixes ready and rendí

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
ready
5 ch
rendí

Visual trap between ready and rendí

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: ready is /ˈɹɛd.i/ while rendí is [rẽn̪ˈd̪i]. 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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63206, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ready is recorded at frequency rank #22,166, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈɹɛd.i/. rendí is at rank #41,040, tagged as averb, pronounced [rẽn̪ˈd̪i].

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 63206, this pair ranks #49,478 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of ready vs rendí

Shared letters: der. Private to "ready": ay. Private to "rendí": .

"ready" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "rendí" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • readyerady · raedy · readdy · readyy · reayd · reday · rready

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ready" for "rendí" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ready" is an adjective and "rendí" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "ready" vs "rendí" - which ranks higher?
"ready" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,166 in our Spanish list, against #41,040 for "rendí". 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 "ready" and "rendí" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ready" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rendí" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #49,478 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ready" and "rendí" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rendí vs rengo". 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 #49,478 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