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

#37,696
“llenará” frequency rank
#2,570
“llevaba” frequency rank
40266
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature llenará llevaba
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de llenar. Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de llevar o de llevarse.

Where the eye mixes llenará and llevaba

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. llenará and llevaba follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
llenará
7 ch
llevaba

Look-alike desk: llenará vs llevaba

A purely visual mix-up. llenará ([ʝenaˈɾa]) and llevaba ([ʝeˈβ̞aβ̞a]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40266, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

llenará is recorded at frequency rank #37,696, classified as averb, pronounced [ʝenaˈɾa]. llevaba is at rank #2,570, tagged as averb, pronounced [ʝeˈβ̞aβ̞a].

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 40266, this pair ranks #160,031 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of llenará vs llevaba

Shared letters: ael. Private to "llenará": nrá. Private to "llevaba": bv.

"llenará" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV  ·  "llevaba" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • llevaba ← lelvaba · levaba · lleavba · llebaba · llevaab · llevabba · llevava · llevbaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "llenará" for "llevaba" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ʝenaˈɾa] versus [ʝeˈβ̞aβ̞a]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "llenará" vs "llevaba" - which ranks higher?
"llevaba" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,570 in our Spanish list, against #37,696 for "llenará". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "llenará" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "llevaba" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #160,031 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "llenará" and "llevaba" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "llenará 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 #160,031 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