talladasvstalladosWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#48,724
“talladas” frequency rank
#45,037
“tallados” frequency rank
93761
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature talladas tallados
Definition Forma del femenino plural de tallado, participio de tallar. Forma del plural de tallado.

Where the eye mixes talladas and tallados

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

8 ch
talladas
8 ch
tallados

Visual trap between talladas and tallados

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: talladas is [t̪aˈʝað̞as] while tallados is [t̪aˈʝað̞os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “talladas” becomes o in “tallados”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 93761, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

talladas is recorded at frequency rank #48,724, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [t̪aˈʝað̞as]. tallados is at rank #45,037, tagged as anoun, pronounced [t̪aˈʝað̞os].

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 93761, this pair ranks #1,021 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of talladas vs tallados

Shared letters: adlst. Private to "talladas": -. Private to "tallados": o.

"talladas" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "tallados" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • talladas ← atlladas · taladas · talaldas · tallaads · talladass · talladdas · talladsa · talldaas
  • tallados ← atllados · talados · talaldos · talladdos · talladoss · talladso · tallaods · talldaos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "talladas" for "tallados" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "talladas" is a participle and "tallados" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "talladas" vs "tallados" - which ranks higher?
"tallados" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #45,037 in our Spanish list, against #48,724 for "talladas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "talladas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tallados" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,021 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "talladas" and "tallados" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Tablada vs talladas". 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 #1,021 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