mejorarvsmejorenTell them apart

Which to use

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

#1,250
“mejorar” frequency rank
#19,798
“mejoren” frequency rank
21048
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mejorar mejoren
Definition Adelantar, acrecentar una cosa, haciédola pasar de un estado bueno a otro mejor. Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de mejorar.

Where the eye mixes mejorar and mejoren

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. mejorar and mejoren follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
mejorar
7 ch
mejoren

Look-alike desk: mejorar vs mejoren

A purely visual mix-up. mejorar ([mexoˈɾaɾ]) and mejoren ([meˈxoɾẽn]) 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 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21048, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mejorar is recorded at frequency rank #1,250, classified as averb, pronounced [mexoˈɾaɾ]. mejoren is at rank #19,798, tagged as averb, pronounced [meˈxoɾẽn].

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 21048, this pair ranks #256,649 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mejorar vs mejoren

Shared letters: ejmor. Private to "mejorar": a. Private to "mejoren": n.

"mejorar" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "mejoren" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mejoraremjorar · mejjorar · mejoarr · mejorarr · mejorra · mejorrar · mejroar · meojrar
  • mejorenemjoren · mejjoren · mejoern · mejorenn · mejorne · mejorren · mejroen · meojren

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mejorar" and "mejoren" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([mexoˈɾaɾ] versus [meˈxoɾẽn]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "mejorar" vs "mejoren" - which ranks higher?
"mejorar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,250 in our Spanish list, against #19,798 for "mejoren". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mejorar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mejoren" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #256,649 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mejorar" and "mejoren" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mejoren vs mejoro". 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 #256,649 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