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

#13,409
“cobrado” frequency rank
#28,685
“cobrará” frequency rank
42094
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cobrado cobrará
Definition Participio de cobrar. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de cobrar.

Where the eye mixes cobrado and cobrará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. cobrado and cobrará follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
cobrado
7 ch
cobrará

Visual trap between cobrado and cobrará

A purely visual mix-up. cobrado ([koˈβ̞ɾað̞o]) and cobrará ([koβ̞ɾaˈɾa]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42094, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cobrado is recorded at frequency rank #13,409, classified as averb, pronounced [koˈβ̞ɾað̞o]. cobrará is at rank #28,685, tagged as averb, pronounced [koβ̞ɾaˈɾa].

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 42094, this pair ranks #150,131 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cobrado vs cobrará

Shared letters: abcor. Private to "cobrado": d. Private to "cobrará": á.

"cobrado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "cobrará" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cobradocborado · ccobrado · cobardo · cobbrado · cobraddo · cobraod · cobrdao · cobrrado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cobrado" and "cobrará" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([koˈβ̞ɾað̞o] versus [koβ̞ɾaˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "cobrado" or "cobrará"?
"cobrado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,409 in our Spanish list, against #28,685 for "cobrará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "cobrado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cobrará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #150,131 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cobrado" and "cobrará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cobranza vs cobrará". 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 #150,131 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