relegadavsrelevadoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#48,038
“relegada” frequency rank
#38,347
“relevado” frequency rank
86385
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relegada relevado
Definition Forma del femenino de relegado, participio de relegar. Participio de relevar.

Where the eye mixes relegada and relevado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. relegada and relevado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
relegada
8 ch
relevado

Visual trap between relegada and relevado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: relegada is [releˈɣ̞að̞a] while relevado is [releˈβ̞að̞o]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86385, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relegada is recorded at frequency rank #48,038, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [releˈɣ̞að̞a]. relevado is at rank #38,347, tagged as averb, pronounced [releˈβ̞að̞o].

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 86385, this pair ranks #5,334 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of relegada vs relevado

Shared letters: adelr. Private to "relegada": g. Private to "relevado": ov.

"relegada" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV  ·  "relevado" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • relegadaerlegada · reelgada · releagda · relegaad · relegadda · relegdaa · releggada · relgeada
  • relevadoerlevado · reelvado · releavdo · relebado · relevaddo · relevaod · relevdao · relevvado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "relegada" for "relevado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "relegada" is a participle and "relevado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "relegada" or "relevado"?
"relevado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,347 in our Spanish list, against #48,038 for "relegada". 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 "relegada" and "relevado" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "relegada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "relevado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,334 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relegada" and "relevado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "relegada vs relegados". 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 #5,334 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