visitadavsvisitadoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#33,371
“visitada” frequency rank
#8,602
“visitado” frequency rank
41973
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visitada visitado
Definition Forma del femenino de visitado, participio de visitar. Participio de visitar.

Where the eye mixes visitada and visitado

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

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Visual trap between visitada and visitado

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: visitada is [bisiˈt̪að̞a] while visitado is [bisiˈt̪að̞o]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “visitada” becomes o in “visitado”, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41973, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visitada is recorded at frequency rank #33,371, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [bisiˈt̪að̞a]. visitado is at rank #8,602, tagged as averb, pronounced [bisiˈt̪að̞o].

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 41973, this pair ranks #150,749 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of visitada vs visitado

Shared letters: adistv. Private to "visitada": -. Private to "visitado": o.

"visitada" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV  ·  "visitado" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visitada ← bisitada · ivsitada · vicitada · viistada · visiatda · visitaad · visitadda · visitdaa
  • visitado ← bisitado · ivsitado · vicitado · viistado · visiatdo · visitaddo · visitaod · visitdao

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "visitada" for "visitado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "visitada" is a participle and "visitado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "visitada" or "visitado"?
"visitado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,602 in our Spanish list, against #33,371 for "visitada". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "visitada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visitado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #150,749 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visitada" and "visitado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visitada vs visitador". 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 #150,749 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