vendadosvsvendemosWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#41,122
“vendados” frequency rank
#21,184
“vendemos” frequency rank
62306
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vendados vendemos
Definition Forma del plural de vendado, participio de vendar. Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de vender o de venderse.

Where the eye mixes vendados and vendemos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. vendados and vendemos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
vendados
8 ch
vendemos

Why the eye confuses vendados with vendemos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vendados is [bẽn̪ˈd̪að̞os] while vendemos is [bẽn̪ˈd̪emos]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vendados is recorded at frequency rank #41,122, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [bẽn̪ˈd̪að̞os]. vendemos is at rank #21,184, tagged as averb, pronounced [bẽn̪ˈd̪emos].

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 62306, this pair ranks #52,498 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of vendados vs vendemos

Shared letters: denosv. Private to "vendados": a. Private to "vendemos": m.

"vendados" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "vendemos" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vendados ← bendados · evndados · vednados · vendaddos · vendadoss · vendadso · vendaods · venddados
  • vendemos ← bendemos · evndemos · vednemos · venddemos · vendemmos · vendemoss · vendemso · vendeoms

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vendados" and "vendemos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vendados" is a participle and "vendemos" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "vendados" or "vendemos" show up more?
"vendemos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,184 in our Spanish list, against #41,122 for "vendados". 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 "vendados" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vendemos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #52,498 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vendados" and "vendemos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vedado vs vendados". 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 #52,498 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