reportadovsreportadosConfusable pair

Quick tell: reportado is a adjective, reportados is a participle, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“reportado” is an adjective and “reportados” is a participle - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,340
“reportado” frequency rank
#27,760
“reportados” frequency rank
41100
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reportado reportados
Definition Sereno, moderado, prudente. Forma del plural de reportado, participio de reportar o de reportarse.

Where the eye mixes reportado and reportados

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

9 ch
reportado
10 ch
reportados

Why the eye confuses reportado with reportados

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: reportado is [repoɾˈt̪að̞o] while reportados is [repoɾˈt̪að̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “reportado” sits inside “reportados”, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41100, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reportado is recorded at frequency rank #13,340, classified as anadj, pronounced [repoɾˈt̪að̞o]. reportados is at rank #27,760, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [repoɾˈt̪að̞os].

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 41100, this pair ranks #155,510 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reportado vs reportados

Shared letters: adeoprt. Private to "reportado": -. Private to "reportados": s.

"reportado" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "reportados" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reportado ← erportado · reoprtado · reporatdo · reporrtado · reportaddo · reportaod · reportdao · reporttado
  • reportados ← erportados · reoprtados · reporatdos · reporrtados · reportaddos · reportadoss · reportadso · reportaods

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "reportado" for "reportados" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reportado" is an adjective and "reportados" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "reportado" vs "reportados" - which ranks higher?
"reportado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,340 in our Spanish list, against #27,760 for "reportados". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reportado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reportados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #155,510 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reportado" and "reportados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reportadas vs reportados". 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 #155,510 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