Español homophones
asar/azar
"asar" is a verb; "azar" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "asar" arrives as a verb, while "azar" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "asar" is 4 letters, "azar" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across asar, azar: ar. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
asar
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCVC
Inventory ars · private s
azar
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCVC
Inventory arz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "asar" when you mean: Cocer por convección directa del calor a través del aire, sin un medio líquido u oleoso intermediario.
- Write "azar" when you mean: Combinación de causas o circunstancias imprevisibles y sin plan previo.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.