talladovstecladoTell them apart

Quick tell: tallado is a adjective, teclado is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tallado” is an adjective and “teclado” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#27,794
“tallado” frequency rank
#5,897
“teclado” frequency rank
33691
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tallado teclado
Definition Con los adverbios "bien" o "mal", de buen, o mal, talle. Conjunto de teclas de un instrumento o mecanismo.

Where the eye mixes tallado and teclado

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. tallado and teclado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
tallado
7 ch
teclado

Visual trap between tallado and teclado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: tallado is [t̪aˈʝað̞o] while teclado is [t̪eˈklað̞o]. 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 (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33691, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tallado is recorded at frequency rank #27,794, classified as anadj, pronounced [t̪aˈʝað̞o]. teclado is at rank #5,897, tagged as anoun, pronounced [t̪eˈklað̞o].

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 33691, this pair ranks #195,420 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tallado vs teclado

Shared letters: adlot. Private to "tallado": -. Private to "teclado": ce.

"tallado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "teclado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tallado ← atllado · talado · talaldo · talladdo · tallaod · talldao · tlalado · ttallado
  • teclado ← etclado · tcelado · tecaldo · tecclado · tecladdo · teclaod · tecldao · tecllado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tallado" and "teclado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tallado" is an adjective and "teclado" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "tallado" or "teclado" show up more?
"teclado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,897 in our Spanish list, against #27,794 for "tallado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "tallado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "teclado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #195,420 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tallado" and "teclado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "talladas vs tallado". 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 #195,420 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