desarrollarvsdesarrollaráTell them apart

Which to use

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

#2,288
“desarrollar” frequency rank
#27,185
“desarrollará” frequency rank
29473
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature desarrollar desarrollará
Definition Desplegar, estirar lo que estaba arrollado. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de desarrollar o de desarrollarse.

Where the eye mixes desarrollar and desarrollará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence.

11 ch
desarrollar
12 ch
desarrollará

Why the eye confuses desarrollar with desarrollará

A purely visual mix-up. desarrollar ([d̪esaroˈʝaɾ]) and desarrollará ([d̪esaroʝaˈɾa]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “desarrollar” sits inside “desarrollará”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29473, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

desarrollar is recorded at frequency rank #2,288, classified as averb, pronounced [d̪esaroˈʝaɾ]. desarrollará is at rank #27,185, tagged as averb, pronounced [d̪esaroʝaˈɾa].

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 29473, this pair ranks #216,850 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of desarrollar vs desarrollará

Shared letters: adelors. Private to "desarrollar": -. Private to "desarrollará": á.

"desarrollar" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVC  ·  "desarrollará" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • desarrollarddesarrollar · deasrrollar · desarollar · desarorllar · desarrlolar · desarrolalr · desarrolar · desarrollarr

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "desarrollar" for "desarrollará" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([d̪esaroˈʝaɾ] versus [d̪esaroʝaˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "desarrollar" vs "desarrollará" - which ranks higher?
"desarrollar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,288 in our Spanish list, against #27,185 for "desarrollará". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "desarrollar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "desarrollará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #216,850 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "desarrollar" and "desarrollará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "desarrollará vs desarrollarán". 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 #216,850 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