dejadavsdeparaConfusable pair

Quick tell: dejada is a participle, depara is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“dejada” is a participle and “depara” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,985
“dejada” frequency rank
#29,151
“depara” frequency rank
55136
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dejada depara
Definition Forma del femenino de dejado, participio de dejar o de dejarse. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de deparar.

Where the eye mixes dejada and depara

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. dejada and depara follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
dejada
6 ch
depara

Look-alike desk: dejada vs depara

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: dejada is [d̪eˈxað̞a] while depara is [d̪eˈpaɾa]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55136, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dejada is recorded at frequency rank #25,985, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [d̪eˈxað̞a]. depara is at rank #29,151, tagged as averb, pronounced [d̪eˈpaɾa].

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 55136, this pair ranks #80,243 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dejada vs depara

Shared letters: ade. Private to "dejada": j. Private to "depara": pr.

"dejada" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "depara" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dejada ← ddejada · deajda · dejaad · dejadda · dejdaa · dejjada · djeada · edjada
  • depara ← ddepara · deapra · depaar · deparra · deppara · depraa · dpeara · edpara

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "dejada" for "depara" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dejada" is a participle and "depara" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "dejada" or "depara"?
"dejada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,985 in our Spanish list, against #29,151 for "depara". 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 "dejada" and "depara" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dejada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "depara" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #80,243 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dejada" and "depara" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "depara vs depre". 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 #80,243 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