adoptarávsadoptaronConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#39,554
“adoptará” frequency rank
#18,140
“adoptaron” frequency rank
57694
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adoptará adoptaron
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de adoptar. Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de adoptar.

Where the eye mixes adoptará and adoptaron

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. adoptará runs 8 letters (VCVCCVCV) against adoptaron's 9 (VCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
adoptará
9 ch
adoptaron

Look-alike desk: adoptará vs adoptaron

A purely visual mix-up. adoptará ([að̞opt̪aˈɾa]) and adoptaron ([að̞opˈt̪aɾõn]) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57694, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adoptará is recorded at frequency rank #39,554, classified as averb, pronounced [að̞opt̪aˈɾa]. adoptaron is at rank #18,140, tagged as averb, pronounced [að̞opˈt̪aɾõn].

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 57694, this pair ranks #69,457 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of adoptará vs adoptaron

Shared letters: adoprt. Private to "adoptará": á. Private to "adoptaron": n.

"adoptará" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV  ·  "adoptaron" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adoptaron ← addoptaron · adopatron · adopptaron · adoptaorn · adoptarno · adoptaronn · adoptarron · adoptraon

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "adoptará" for "adoptaron" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([að̞opt̪aˈɾa] versus [að̞opˈt̪aɾõn]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "adoptará" or "adoptaron" show up more?
"adoptaron" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,140 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 "adoptará" and "adoptaron" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adoptará" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adoptaron" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,457 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adoptará" and "adoptaron" 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 #69,457 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