adoptarávsadoptivaConfusable pair

Quick tell: adoptará is a verb, adoptiva is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“adoptará” is a verb and “adoptiva” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,554
“adoptará” frequency rank
#32,473
“adoptiva” frequency rank
72027
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adoptará adoptiva
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de adoptar. Forma del femenino de adoptivo.

Where the eye mixes adoptará and adoptiva

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

8 ch
adoptará
8 ch
adoptiva

Visual trap between adoptará and adoptiva

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: adoptará is [að̞opt̪aˈɾa] while adoptiva is [að̞opˈt̪iβ̞a]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72027, 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]. adoptiva is at rank #32,473, tagged as anadj, pronounced [að̞opˈt̪iβ̞a].

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 72027, this pair ranks #26,237 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of adoptará vs adoptiva

Shared letters: adopt. Private to "adoptará": rá. Private to "adoptiva": iv.

"adoptará" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV  ·  "adoptiva" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adoptiva ← addoptiva · adopitva · adopptiva · adoptiav · adoptiba · adoptivva · adopttiva · adoptvia

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "adoptará" for "adoptiva" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "adoptará" is a verb and "adoptiva" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "adoptará" or "adoptiva"?
"adoptiva" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,473 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 "adoptiva" 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 "adoptiva" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #26,237 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adoptará" and "adoptiva" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adictiva 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 #26,237 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