acordarávsacordateWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

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

#40,616
“acordará” frequency rank
#24,710
“acordate” frequency rank
65326
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acordará acordate
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de acordar o de acordarse. Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de acordarse (con el pronombre «te» enclítico).

Where the eye mixes acordará and acordate

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

8 ch
acordará
8 ch
acordate

Visual trap between acordará and acordate

A purely visual mix-up. acordará ([akoɾð̞aˈɾa]) and acordate ([akoɾˈð̞at̪e]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65326, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acordará is recorded at frequency rank #40,616, classified as averb, pronounced [akoɾð̞aˈɾa]. acordate is at rank #24,710, tagged as averb, pronounced [akoɾˈð̞at̪e].

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 65326, this pair ranks #42,986 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of acordará vs acordate

Shared letters: acdor. Private to "acordará": á. Private to "acordate": et.

"acordará" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV  ·  "acordate" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acordateaccordate · acodrate · acoradte · acordaet · acordatte · acorddate · acordtae · acorrdate

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "acordará" for "acordate" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([akoɾð̞aˈɾa] versus [akoɾˈð̞at̪e]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "acordará" or "acordate" show up more?
"acordate" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,710 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "acordará" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acordate" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,986 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acordará" and "acordate" 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 #42,986 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