dejadovsdejaráConfusable pair

Quick tell: dejado is a adjective, dejará is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#1,406
“dejado” frequency rank
#6,392
“dejará” frequency rank
7798
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dejado dejará
Definition Que no se preocupa de hacer las cosas que le corresponden. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de dejar o de dejarse.

Where the eye mixes dejado and dejará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
dejado
6 ch
dejará

Visual trap between dejado and dejará

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: dejado is [d̪eˈxað̞o] while dejará is [d̪exaˈɾa]. 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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7798, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dejado is recorded at frequency rank #1,406, classified as anadj, pronounced [d̪eˈxað̞o]. dejará is at rank #6,392, tagged as averb, pronounced [d̪exaˈɾa].

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 7798, this pair ranks #306,899 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of dejado vs dejará

Shared letters: adej. Private to "dejado": o. Private to "dejará": .

"dejado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "dejará" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dejadoddejado · deajdo · dejaddo · dejaod · dejdao · dejjado · djeado · edjado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "dejado" and "dejará" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dejado" is an adjective and "dejará" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "dejado" or "dejará" show up more?
"dejado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,406 in our Spanish list, against #6,392 for "dejará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "dejado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dejará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #306,899 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dejado" and "dejará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dejadez vs dejado". 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 #306,899 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