importarvsimportaráTell them apart

Which to use

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

#3,128
“importar” frequency rank
#36,095
“importará” frequency rank
39223
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature importar importará
Definition Merecer atención y valoración por su entidad o significatividad. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de importar.

Where the eye mixes importar and importará

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

8 ch
importar
9 ch
importará

Why the eye confuses importar with importará

A purely visual mix-up. importar ([ĩmpoɾˈt̪aɾ]) and importará ([ĩmpoɾt̪aˈɾa]) 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) - “importar” sits inside “importará”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39223, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

importar is recorded at frequency rank #3,128, classified as averb, pronounced [ĩmpoɾˈt̪aɾ]. importará is at rank #36,095, tagged as averb, pronounced [ĩmpoɾt̪aˈɾa].

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 39223, this pair ranks #165,757 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of importar vs importará

Shared letters: aimoprt. Private to "importar": -. Private to "importará": á.

"importar" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "importará" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • importar ← immportar · imoprtar · imporatr · imporrtar · importarr · importra · importtar · impotrar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "importar" and "importará" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([ĩmpoɾˈt̪aɾ] versus [ĩmpoɾt̪aˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "importar" vs "importará" - which ranks higher?
"importar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,128 in our Spanish list, against #36,095 for "importará". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "importar" and "importará" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "importar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "importará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #165,757 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "importar" and "importará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "important vs importará". 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 #165,757 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