sentidasvssentidosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: sentidas is a participle, sentidos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sentidas” is a participle and “sentidos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,410
“sentidas” frequency rank
#5,156
“sentidos” frequency rank
52566
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sentidas sentidos
Definition Forma del femenino plural de sentido, participio de sentir. Forma del plural de sentido.

Where the eye mixes sentidas and sentidos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. sentidas and sentidos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

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Visual trap between sentidas and sentidos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: sentidas is [sẽn̪ˈt̪ið̞as] while sentidos is [sẽn̪ˈt̪ið̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “sentidas” becomes o in “sentidos”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52566, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sentidas is recorded at frequency rank #47,410, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [sẽn̪ˈt̪ið̞as]. sentidos is at rank #5,156, tagged as anoun, pronounced [sẽn̪ˈt̪ið̞os].

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 52566, this pair ranks #92,081 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sentidas vs sentidos

Shared letters: deinst. Private to "sentidas": a. Private to "sentidos": o.

"sentidas" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "sentidos" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sentidas ← centidas · esntidas · senitdas · senntidas · sentdias · sentiads · sentidass · sentiddas
  • sentidos ← centidos · esntidos · senitdos · senntidos · sentdios · sentiddos · sentidoss · sentidso

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sentidas" and "sentidos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sentidas" is a participle and "sentidos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "sentidas" or "sentidos" show up more?
"sentidos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,156 in our Spanish list, against #47,410 for "sentidas". 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 "sentidas" and "sentidos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sentidas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sentidos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #92,081 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sentidas" and "sentidos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sentías vs sentidas". 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 #92,081 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