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

#36,544
“echará” frequency rank
#10,494
“echaron” frequency rank
47038
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature echará echaron
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de echar o de echarse. Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de echar o de echarse.

Where the eye mixes echará and echaron

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
echará
7 ch
echaron

Visual trap between echará and echaron

A purely visual mix-up. echará ([et͡ʃaˈɾa]) and echaron ([eˈt͡ʃaɾõn]) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47038, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

echará is recorded at frequency rank #36,544, classified as averb, pronounced [et͡ʃaˈɾa]. echaron is at rank #10,494, tagged as averb, pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾõn].

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 47038, this pair ranks #122,321 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of echará vs echaron

Shared letters: acehr. Private to "echará": á. Private to "echaron": no.

"echará" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "echaron" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • echaronceharon · ecahron · eccharon · echaorn · echarno · echaronn · echarron · echharon

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "echará" for "echaron" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([et͡ʃaˈɾa] versus [eˈt͡ʃaɾõn]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "echará" or "echaron" show up more?
"echaron" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,494 in our Spanish list, against #36,544 for "echará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "echará" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "echaron" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #122,321 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "echará" and "echaron" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "echará vs echarán". 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 #122,321 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