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.

  • brillantesbbrillantes · birllantes · brilalntes · brilantes · brillanets · brillanntes
  • brillantezbbrillantez · birllantez · brilalntez · brilantez · brillanetz · brillanntez

Each spelling

brillantes

adjective · /bɾiˈʝãn̪t̪es/ · #6,629 frequency

Forma del plural de brillante.

brillantez

noun · /bɾiʝãn̪ˈt̪es/ · #36,441 frequency

Cualidad de lo brillante.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list