tejadovstejidaWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#13,799
“tejado” frequency rank
#49,976
“tejida” frequency rank
63775
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tejado tejida
Definition Parte que remata y cierra un edificio por su cara superior Forma del femenino de tejido, participio de tejer o de tejerse.

Where the eye mixes tejado and tejida

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. tejado and tejida follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
tejado
6 ch
tejida

Look-alike desk: tejado vs tejida

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: tejado is [t̪eˈxað̞o] while tejida is [t̪eˈxið̞a]. 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 (noun vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63775, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tejado is recorded at frequency rank #13,799, classified as anoun, pronounced [t̪eˈxað̞o]. tejida is at rank #49,976, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [t̪eˈxið̞a].

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 63775, this pair ranks #47,651 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of tejado vs tejida

Shared letters: adejt. Private to "tejado": o. Private to "tejida": i.

"tejado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "tejida" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tejado ← etjado · teajdo · tejaddo · tejaod · tejdao · tejjado · tjeado · ttejado
  • tejida ← etjida · teijda · tejdia · tejiad · tejidda · tejjida · tjeida · ttejida

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "tejado" for "tejida" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tejado" is a noun and "tejida" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "tejado" or "tejida" show up more?
"tejado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,799 in our Spanish list, against #49,976 for "tejida". 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 "tejado" and "tejida" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tejado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tejida" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,651 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tejado" and "tejida" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tejida vs teñida". 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 #47,651 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