adoptarvsadoptaráTell them apart

Which to use

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

#4,849
“adoptar” frequency rank
#39,554
“adoptará” frequency rank
44403
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adoptar adoptará
Definition Llevar a cabo una adopción, el acto de recibir a alguien en una relación de parentesco (como hijo o pariente propios), con los requisitos legales del caso. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de adoptar.

Where the eye mixes adoptar and adoptará

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

7 ch
adoptar
8 ch
adoptará

Look-alike desk: adoptar vs adoptará

A purely visual mix-up. adoptar ([að̞opˈt̪aɾ]) and adoptará ([að̞opt̪aˈɾa]) 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) - “adoptar” sits inside “adoptará”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44403, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adoptar is recorded at frequency rank #4,849, classified as averb, pronounced [að̞opˈt̪aɾ]. adoptará is at rank #39,554, tagged as averb, pronounced [að̞opt̪aˈɾa].

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 44403, this pair ranks #137,267 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adoptar vs adoptará

Shared letters: adoprt. Private to "adoptar": -. Private to "adoptará": á.

"adoptar" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC  ·  "adoptará" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adoptar ← addoptar · adopatr · adopptar · adoptarr · adoptra · adopttar · adotpar · adpotar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "adoptar" for "adoptará" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([að̞opˈt̪aɾ] versus [að̞opt̪aˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "adoptar" or "adoptará" show up more?
"adoptar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,849 in our Spanish list, against #39,554 for "adoptará". 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 "adoptar" and "adoptará" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adoptar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adoptará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #137,267 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adoptar" and "adoptará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptará vs adoptiva". 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 #137,267 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