recogerávsrecogidaTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#36,785
“recogerá” frequency rank
#9,030
“recogida” frequency rank
45815
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recogerá recogida
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de recoger. Forma del femenino de recogido, participio de recoger.

Where the eye mixes recogerá and recogida

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

8 ch
recogerá
8 ch
recogida

Why the eye confuses recogerá with recogida

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: recogerá is [rekoxeˈɾa] while recogida is [rekoˈxið̞a]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs participle), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45815, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recogerá is recorded at frequency rank #36,785, classified as averb, pronounced [rekoxeˈɾa]. recogida is at rank #9,030, tagged as aparticiple, pronounced [rekoˈxið̞a].

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 45815, this pair ranks #129,292 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recogerá vs recogida

Shared letters: cegor. Private to "recogerá": á. Private to "recogida": adi.

"recogerá" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV  ·  "recogida" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recogidaercogida · rceogida · reccogida · recgoida · recogdia · recoggida · recogiad · recogidda

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "recogerá" for "recogida" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recogerá" is a verb and "recogida" a participle, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "recogerá" vs "recogida" - which ranks higher?
"recogida" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,030 in our Spanish list, against #36,785 for "recogerá". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "recogerá" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recogida" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #129,292 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recogerá" and "recogida" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recogerá vs recogía". 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 #129,292 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