Español homophones
aux/eau/Ho/oh
"aux" is a contraction; "eau" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #2 of 387 Spanish groups.
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Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "aux" arrives as a contraction, while "eau" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "aux" is 3 letters, "eau" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "aux" is 3 letters, "Ho" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "aux" is 3 letters, "oh" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "eau" is 3 letters, "Ho" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "eau" is 3 letters, "oh" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Ho" is 2 letters, "oh" is 2; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across aux, eau, Ho, oh: none. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
aux
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVC
Inventory aux · private aux
eau
3 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVV
Inventory aeu · private aeu
Ho
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory ho · private ho
oh
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape VC
Inventory ho · private ho
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "aux" when you mean: Contracción de la preposición à y el artículo les; a las ; a los.
- Write "eau" when you mean: Agua.
- Write "Ho" when you mean: Ciudad de Ghana
- Write "oh" when you mean: Interjección que se usa para para manifestar muchos y muy diversos movimientos del ánimo, y más ordinariamente asombro, pena o alegría.