repartióvsrepartoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: repartió is a verb, reparto is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“repartió” is a verb and “reparto” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,095
“repartió” frequency rank
#5,663
“reparto” frequency rank
36758
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature repartió reparto
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de repartir. Relación de los personajes de una obra cinematográfica y de los actores que la encarnan. Se le adjudica a cada actor el personaje que le corresponde.

Where the eye mixes repartió and reparto

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. repartió runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVV) against reparto's 7 (CVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
repartió
7 ch
reparto

Why the eye confuses repartió with reparto

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: repartió is [repaɾˈt̪jo] while reparto is [reˈpaɾt̪o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36758, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

repartió is recorded at frequency rank #31,095, classified as averb, pronounced [repaɾˈt̪jo]. reparto is at rank #5,663, tagged as anoun, pronounced [reˈpaɾt̪o].

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 36758, this pair ranks #178,950 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of repartió vs reparto

Shared letters: aeprt. Private to "repartió": ió. Private to "reparto": o.

"repartió" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "reparto" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reparto ← erparto · reaprto · reparot · reparrto · repartto · repatro · repparto · reprato

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "repartió" for "reparto" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "repartió" is a verb and "reparto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "repartió" or "reparto"?
"reparto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,663 in our Spanish list, against #31,095 for "repartió". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "repartió" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reparto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #178,950 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "repartió" and "reparto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repartía vs repartió". 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 #178,950 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