suspendidavssuspendióWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#15,734
“suspendida” frequency rank
#14,721
“suspendió” frequency rank
30455
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suspendida suspendió
Definition Forma del femenino de suspendido, participio de suspender. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de suspender.

Where the eye mixes suspendida and suspendió

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. suspendida runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVCV) against suspendió's 9 (CVCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
suspendida
9 ch
suspendió

Look-alike desk: suspendida vs suspendió

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: suspendida is [suspẽn̪ˈd̪ið̞a] while suspendió is [suspẽn̪ˈd̪jo]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suspendida is recorded at frequency rank #15,734, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [suspẽn̪ˈd̪ið̞a]. suspendió is at rank #14,721, tagged as averb, pronounced [suspẽn̪ˈd̪jo].

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 30455, this pair ranks #211,899 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of suspendida vs suspendió

Shared letters: deinpsu. Private to "suspendida": a. Private to "suspendió": ó.

"suspendida" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV  ·  "suspendió" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • suspendida ← ssupendida · ssuspendida · supsendida · susepndida · suspednida · suspenddia · suspenddida · suspendiad

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "suspendida" and "suspendió" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "suspendida" is a participle and "suspendió" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "suspendida" vs "suspendió" - which ranks higher?
"suspendió" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,721 in our Spanish list, against #15,734 for "suspendida". 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 "suspendida" and "suspendió" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "suspendida" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suspendió" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #211,899 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suspendida" and "suspendió" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suspendan vs suspendió". 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 #211,899 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