mejorenvsmejoríaWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: mejoren is a verb, mejoría is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mejoren” is a verb and “mejoría” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,798
“mejoren” frequency rank
#18,020
“mejoría” frequency rank
37818
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mejoren mejoría
Definition Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de mejorar. Medra, adelantamiento y aumento de una cosa. Mejora.

Where the eye mixes mejoren and mejoría

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. mejoren (CVCVCVC) and mejoría (CVCVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
mejoren
7 ch
mejoría

Look-alike desk: mejoren vs mejoría

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mejoren is [meˈxoɾẽn] while mejoría is [mexoˈɾia]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37818, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mejoren is recorded at frequency rank #19,798, classified as averb, pronounced [meˈxoɾẽn]. mejoría is at rank #18,020, tagged as anoun, pronounced [mexoˈɾia].

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 37818, this pair ranks #173,300 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mejoren vs mejoría

Shared letters: ejmor. Private to "mejoren": n. Private to "mejoría": aí.

"mejoren" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "mejoría" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mejoren ← emjoren · mejjoren · mejoern · mejorenn · mejorne · mejorren · mejroen · meojren

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mejoren" and "mejoría" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mejoren" is a verb and "mejoría" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mejoren" vs "mejoría" - which ranks higher?
"mejoría" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,020 in our Spanish list, against #19,798 for "mejoren". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mejoren" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mejoría" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #173,300 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mejoren" and "mejoría" 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 #173,300 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