recordarávsrecortadaTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#21,128
“recordará” frequency rank
#40,501
“recortada” frequency rank
61629
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recordará recortada
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de recordar. Escopeta recortada.

Where the eye mixes recordará and recortada

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

9 ch
recordará
9 ch
recortada

Visual trap between recordará and recortada

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: recordará is [rekoɾð̞aˈɾa] while recortada is [rekoɾˈt̪að̞a]. 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 noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61629, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recordará is recorded at frequency rank #21,128, classified as averb, pronounced [rekoɾð̞aˈɾa]. recortada is at rank #40,501, tagged as anoun, pronounced [rekoɾˈt̪að̞a].

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 61629, this pair ranks #54,784 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of recordará vs recortada

Shared letters: acdeor. Private to "recordará": á. Private to "recortada": t.

"recordará" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "recortada" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recortada ← ercortada · rceortada · reccortada · recoratda · recorrtada · recortaad · recortadda · recortdaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "recordará" and "recortada" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recordará" is a verb and "recortada" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "recordará" or "recortada"?
"recordará" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,128 in our Spanish list, against #40,501 for "recortada". 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 "recordará" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recortada" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,784 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recordará" and "recortada" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recortada vs recortan". 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 #54,784 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