casarávscesáreaTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#48,879
“casará” frequency rank
#25,176
“cesárea” frequency rank
74055
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casará cesárea
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de casar o de casarse. Procedimiento de parto, el cual consiste en extraer al feto o fetos mediante una incisión en el abdomen y útero de la madre.

Where the eye mixes casará and cesárea

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. casará runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against cesárea's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
casará
7 ch
cesárea

Look-alike desk: casará vs cesárea

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: casará is [kasaˈɾa] while cesárea is [seˈsaɾea]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74055, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casará is recorded at frequency rank #48,879, classified as averb, pronounced [kasaˈɾa]. cesárea is at rank #25,176, tagged as anoun, pronounced [seˈsaɾea].

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 74055, this pair ranks #22,041 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of casará vs cesárea

Shared letters: acrsá. Private to "casará": -. Private to "cesárea": e.

"casará" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "cesárea" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "casará" and "cesárea" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "casará" is a verb and "cesárea" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "casará" or "cesárea" show up more?
"cesárea" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,176 in our Spanish list, against #48,879 for "casará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casará" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cesárea" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #22,041 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casará" and "cesárea" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cagaba vs casará". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #22,041 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