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

#31,088
“recortado” frequency rank
#13,340
“reportado” frequency rank
44428
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recortado reportado
Definition Cortado de modo que todavía quede gran parte del cuerpo principal. Sereno, moderado, prudente.

Where the eye mixes recortado and reportado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. recortado and reportado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
recortado
9 ch
reportado

Why the eye confuses recortado with reportado

A purely visual mix-up. recortado ([rekoɾˈt̪að̞o]) and reportado ([repoɾˈt̪að̞o]) 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 a single letter - c in “recortado” becomes p in “reportado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44428, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recortado is recorded at frequency rank #31,088, classified as anadj, pronounced [rekoɾˈt̪að̞o]. reportado is at rank #13,340, tagged as anadj, pronounced [repoɾˈt̪að̞o].

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 44428, this pair ranks #137,115 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recortado vs reportado

Shared letters: adeort. Private to "recortado": c. Private to "reportado": p.

"recortado" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "reportado" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recortado ← ercortado · rceortado · reccortado · recoratdo · recorrtado · recortaddo · recortaod · recortdao
  • reportado ← erportado · reoprtado · reporatdo · reporrtado · reportaddo · reportaod · reportdao · reporttado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "recortado" for "reportado" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([rekoɾˈt̪að̞o] versus [repoɾˈt̪að̞o]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "recortado" or "reportado"?
"reportado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,340 in our Spanish list, against #31,088 for "recortado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "recortado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reportado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #137,115 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recortado" and "reportado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recortado vs recortan". 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 #137,115 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