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

#6,315
“indicar” frequency rank
#41,975
“indicará” frequency rank
48290
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature indicar indicará
Definition Designar algún objeto. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de indicar.

Where the eye mixes indicar and indicará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. indicar runs 7 letters (VCCVCVC) against indicará's 8 (VCCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
indicar
8 ch
indicará

Look-alike desk: indicar vs indicará

A purely visual mix-up. indicar ([ĩn̪d̪iˈkaɾ]) and indicará ([ĩn̪d̪ikaˈɾa]) 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) - “indicar” sits inside “indicará”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48290, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

indicar is recorded at frequency rank #6,315, classified as averb, pronounced [ĩn̪d̪iˈkaɾ]. indicará is at rank #41,975, tagged as averb, pronounced [ĩn̪d̪ikaˈɾa].

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 48290, this pair ranks #115,295 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of indicar vs indicará

Shared letters: acdinr. Private to "indicar": -. Private to "indicará": á.

"indicar" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC  ·  "indicará" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • indicar ← idnicar · indciar · inddicar · indiacr · indicarr · indiccar · indicra · inidcar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "indicar" for "indicará" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ĩn̪d̪iˈkaɾ] versus [ĩn̪d̪ikaˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "indicar" vs "indicará" - which ranks higher?
"indicar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,315 in our Spanish list, against #41,975 for "indicará". 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 "indicar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "indicará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #115,295 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "indicar" and "indicará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indicará vs Indira". 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 #115,295 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