respetadovsresultadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#12,241
“respetado” frequency rank
#666
“resultado” frequency rank
12907
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature respetado resultado
Definition Participio de respetar. Efecto de una acción, de un hecho o de un cálculo.

Where the eye mixes respetado and resultado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

9 ch
respetado
9 ch
resultado

Visual trap between respetado and resultado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: respetado is [respeˈt̪að̞o] while resultado is [resul̪ˈt̪að̞o]. 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 (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12907, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

respetado is recorded at frequency rank #12,241, classified as averb, pronounced [respeˈt̪að̞o]. resultado is at rank #666, tagged as anoun, pronounced [resul̪ˈt̪að̞o].

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 12907, this pair ranks #289,829 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of respetado vs resultado

Shared letters: adeorst. Private to "respetado": p. Private to "resultado": lu.

"respetado" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV  ·  "resultado" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • respetadoerspetado · repsetado · reseptado · respeatdo · respetaddo · respetaod · respetdao · respettado
  • resultadoersultado · reslutado · ressultado · resulatdo · resulltado · resultaddo · resultaod · resultdao

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "respetado" and "resultado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "respetado" is a verb and "resultado" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "respetado" or "resultado" show up more?
"resultado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #666 in our Spanish list, against #12,241 for "respetado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "respetado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "resultado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #289,829 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "respetado" and "resultado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "respetado vs respetaron". 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 #289,829 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