cámaravscasaráTell them apart

Quick tell: cámara is a noun, casará is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“cámara” is a noun and “casará” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#845
“cámara” frequency rank
#48,879
“casará” frequency rank
49724
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cámara casará
Definition Aparato que sirve para capturar imágenes estáticas. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de casar o de casarse.

Where the eye mixes cámara and casará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. cámara and casará follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
cámara
6 ch
casará

Look-alike desk: cámara vs casará

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: cámara is [ˈkamaɾa] while casará is [kasaˈɾa]. 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 (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49724, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cámara is recorded at frequency rank #845, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈkamaɾa]. casará is at rank #48,879, tagged as averb, pronounced [kasaˈɾa].

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 49724, this pair ranks #107,192 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cámara vs casará

Shared letters: acrá. Private to "cámara": m. Private to "casará": s.

"cámara" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "casará" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cámara" for "casará" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cámara" is a noun and "casará" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "cámara" or "casará" show up more?
"cámara" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #845 in our Spanish list, against #48,879 for "casará". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "cámara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #107,192 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cámara" and "casará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cagaba vs casará". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #107,192 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