Español homophones
brillantes/brillantez
"brillantes" is an adjective; "brillantez" 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: "brillantes" arrives as an adjective, while "brillantez" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "brillantes" keeps s, "brillantez" writes z at letter 10.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across brillantes, brillantez: abeilnrt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
brillantes
10 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVCCVC
Inventory abeilnrst · private s
brillantez
10 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVCCVC
Inventory abeilnrtz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "brillantes" when you mean: Forma del plural de brillante.
- Write "brillantez" when you mean: Cualidad de lo brillante.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- brillantes ← bbrillantes · birllantes · brilalntes · brilantes · brillanets · brillanntes
- brillantez ← bbrillantez · birllantez · brilalntez · brilantez · brillanetz · brillanntez