Español homophones

bello/vello

"bello" is an adjective; "vello" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "bello" arrives as an adjective, while "vello" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "bello" is 5 letters, "vello" is 5; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across bello, vello: elo. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • bello

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV

    Inventory belo · private b

  • vello

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV

    Inventory elov · private v

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "bello" when you mean: Agradable a los sentidos.
  • Write "vello" when you mean: Pelo, más fino y delgado que el del cuero cabelludo, que recubre la mayor parte de la piel humana.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • bellobbello · belol · blelo · ebllo
  • velloevllo · velol · vlelo · vvello

Each spelling

bello

adjective · /ˈbeʝo/ · #3,758 frequency

Agradable a los sentidos.

vello

noun · /ˈbeʝo/ · #22,226 frequency

Pelo, más fino y delgado que el del cuero cabelludo, que recubre la mayor parte de la piel humana.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list