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

#14,440
“realizaba” frequency rank
#8,861
“realizará” frequency rank
23301
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature realizaba realizará
Definition Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de realizar. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de realizar.

Where the eye mixes realizaba and realizará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. realizaba and realizará follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
realizaba
9 ch
realizará

Visual trap between realizaba and realizará

A purely visual mix-up. realizaba ([realiˈsaβ̞a]) and realizará ([realisaˈɾa]) 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 23301, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

realizaba is recorded at frequency rank #14,440, classified as averb, pronounced [realiˈsaβ̞a]. realizará is at rank #8,861, tagged as averb, pronounced [realisaˈɾa].

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 23301, this pair ranks #246,428 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of realizaba vs realizará

Shared letters: aeilrz. Private to "realizaba": b. Private to "realizará": á.

"realizaba" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCVCV  ·  "realizará" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • realizaba ← eralizaba · raelizaba · reailzaba · realiazba · realizaab · realizabba · realizava · realizbaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "realizaba" for "realizará" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([realiˈsaβ̞a] versus [realisaˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "realizaba" or "realizará" show up more?
"realizará" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,861 in our Spanish list, against #14,440 for "realizaba". 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 "realizaba" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "realizará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #246,428 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "realizaba" and "realizará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "realizaba vs realizaría". 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 #246,428 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