proporcionadavsproporcionaráTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#16,958
“proporcionada” frequency rank
#26,573
“proporcionará” frequency rank
43531
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature proporcionada proporcionará
Definition Forma del femenino de proporcionado. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de proporcionar o de proporcionarse.

Where the eye mixes proporcionada and proporcionará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. proporcionada and proporcionará follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVCCVVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

13 ch
proporcionada
13 ch
proporcionará

Visual trap between proporcionada and proporcionará

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: proporcionada is [pɾopoɾsjoˈnað̞a] while proporcionará is [pɾopoɾsjonaˈɾa]. 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 (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43531, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

proporcionada is recorded at frequency rank #16,958, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [pɾopoɾsjoˈnað̞a]. proporcionará is at rank #26,573, tagged as averb, pronounced [pɾopoɾsjonaˈɾa].

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 43531, this pair ranks #142,145 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of proporcionada vs proporcionará

Shared letters: acinopr. Private to "proporcionada": d. Private to "proporcionará": á.

"proporcionada" · 13 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCVCV  ·  "proporcionará" · 13 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • proporcionadaporporcionada · pproporcionada · prooprcionada · propocrionada · proporccionada · proporcinoada · proporcioanda · proporcionaad

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "proporcionada" for "proporcionará" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "proporcionada" is a participle and "proporcionará" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "proporcionada" or "proporcionará"?
"proporcionada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,958 in our Spanish list, against #26,573 for "proporcionará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "proporcionada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "proporcionará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #142,145 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "proporcionada" and "proporcionará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "proporcionará vs proporcionaron". 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 #142,145 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