llegadasvsllegaráConfusable pair

Quick tell: llegadas is a participle, llegará is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“llegadas” is a participle and “llegará” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,550
“llegadas” frequency rank
#4,353
“llegará” frequency rank
28903
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature llegadas llegará
Definition Forma del femenino plural de llegado, participio de llegar o de llegarse. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de llegar o de llegarse.

Where the eye mixes llegadas and llegará

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

8 ch
llegadas
7 ch
llegará

Look-alike desk: llegadas vs llegará

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: llegadas is [ʝeˈɣ̞að̞as] while llegará is [ʝeɣ̞aˈɾa]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28903, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

llegadas is recorded at frequency rank #24,550, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [ʝeˈɣ̞að̞as]. llegará is at rank #4,353, tagged as averb, pronounced [ʝeɣ̞aˈɾa].

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 28903, this pair ranks #219,652 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of llegadas vs llegará

Shared letters: aegl. Private to "llegadas": ds. Private to "llegará": .

"llegadas" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC  ·  "llegará" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • llegadaslegadas · lelgadas · lleagdas · llegaads · llegadass · llegaddas · llegadsa · llegdaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "llegadas" for "llegará" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "llegadas" is a participle and "llegará" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "llegadas" or "llegará" show up more?
"llegará" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,353 in our Spanish list, against #24,550 for "llegadas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "llegadas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "llegará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #219,652 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "llegadas" and "llegará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "llegadas vs llevarás". 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 #219,652 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