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

#18,236
“encantar” frequency rank
#23,041
“encantará” frequency rank
41277
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature encantar encantará
Definition En los cuentos para niños y en algunos mitos, someter a una persona a poderes mágicos malignos. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de encantar.

Where the eye mixes encantar and encantará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. encantar runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVC) against encantará's 9 (VCCVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
encantar
9 ch
encantará

Look-alike desk: encantar vs encantará

A purely visual mix-up. encantar ([ẽŋkãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]) and encantará ([ẽŋkãn̪t̪aˈɾa]) 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) - “encantar” sits inside “encantará”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41277, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

encantar is recorded at frequency rank #18,236, classified as averb, pronounced [ẽŋkãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. encantará is at rank #23,041, tagged as averb, pronounced [ẽŋkãn̪t̪aˈɾa].

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 41277, this pair ranks #154,540 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of encantar vs encantará

Shared letters: acenrt. Private to "encantar": -. Private to "encantará": á.

"encantar" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "encantará" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • encantar ← ecnantar · enacntar · encanatr · encanntar · encantarr · encantra · encanttar · encatnar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "encantar" and "encantará" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([ẽŋkãn̪ˈt̪aɾ] versus [ẽŋkãn̪t̪aˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "encantar" or "encantará" show up more?
"encantar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,236 in our Spanish list, against #23,041 for "encantará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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  • Full dictionary entry for "encantar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "encantará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #154,540 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "encantar" and "encantará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "encantaban vs encantará". 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 #154,540 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