Español homophones
basta/vasta
"basta" is a noun; "vasta" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "basta" arrives as a noun, while "vasta" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "basta" is 5 letters, "vasta" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across basta, vasta: ast. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
basta
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory abst · private b
vasta
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory astv · private v
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "basta" when you mean: Hilván que dan en la ropa los sastres, modistas y costureras, para que salgan bien derechas las costuras.
- Write "vasta" when you mean: Forma del femenino singular de vasto.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.