proporcionadovsproporcionaráTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#12,034
“proporcionado” frequency rank
#26,573
“proporcionará” frequency rank
38607
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature proporcionado proporcionará
Definition Dispuesto, competente o apto para lo que es menester. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de proporcionar o de proporcionarse.

Where the eye mixes proporcionado and proporcionará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. proporcionado 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
proporcionado
13 ch
proporcionará

Look-alike desk: proporcionado vs proporcionará

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: proporcionado is [pɾopoɾsjoˈnað̞o] 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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38607, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

proporcionado is recorded at frequency rank #12,034, classified as anadj, pronounced [pɾopoɾsjoˈnað̞o]. 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 38607, this pair ranks #169,077 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of proporcionado vs proporcionará

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

"proporcionado" · 13 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCVCV  ·  "proporcionará" · 13 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • proporcionado ← porporcionado · pproporcionado · prooprcionado · propocrionado · proporccionado · proporcinoado · proporcioando · proporcionaddo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "proporcionado" for "proporcionará" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "proporcionado" is an adjective and "proporcionará" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "proporcionado" or "proporcionará"?
"proporcionado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,034 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.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "proporcionado" 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 #169,077 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "proporcionado" 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 #169,077 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