acordarvsacordaráWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“acordar” and “acordará” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#6,744
“acordar” frequency rank
#40,616
“acordará” frequency rank
47360
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acordar acordará
Definition Adoptar en común una resolución varias personas, deliberando previamente acerca del asunto. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de acordar o de acordarse.

Where the eye mixes acordar and acordará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. acordar runs 7 letters (VCVCCVC) against acordará's 8 (VCVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
acordar
8 ch
acordará

Visual trap between acordar and acordará

A purely visual mix-up. acordar ([akoɾˈð̞aɾ]) and acordará ([akoɾð̞aˈɾa]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “acordar” sits inside “acordará”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47360, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acordar is recorded at frequency rank #6,744, classified as averb, pronounced [akoɾˈð̞aɾ]. acordará is at rank #40,616, tagged as averb, pronounced [akoɾð̞aˈɾa].

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 47360, this pair ranks #120,474 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of acordar vs acordará

Shared letters: acdor. Private to "acordar": -. Private to "acordará": á.

"acordar" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC  ·  "acordará" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acordar ← accordar · acodrar · acoradr · acordarr · acorddar · acordra · acorrdar · acrodar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "acordar" for "acordará" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([akoɾˈð̞aɾ] versus [akoɾð̞aˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "acordar" vs "acordará" - which ranks higher?
"acordar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,744 in our Spanish list, against #40,616 for "acordará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "acordar" and "acordará" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "acordar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acordará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #120,474 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acordar" and "acordará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acercará vs acordará". 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 #120,474 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