Español homophones
c/ce/ces/se/ze
"c" is a character; "ce" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #1 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "c" arrives as a character, while "ce" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "c" is 1 letters, "ce" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "c" is 1 letters, "ces" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "c" is 1 letters, "se" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "c" is 1 letters, "ze" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- Shared stem "ce" then splits - "ce" (2 letters) vs "ces" (3).
- No shared spelling stem: "ce" is 2 letters, "se" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "ce" is 2 letters, "ze" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "ces" is 3 letters, "se" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "ces" is 3 letters, "ze" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "se" is 2 letters, "ze" is 2; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across c, ce, ces, se, ze: none. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
c
1 letters · 0 vowels · shape C
Inventory c · private c
ce
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory ce · private ce
ces
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ces · private ces
se
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory es · private es
ze
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory ez · private ez
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "c" when you mean: Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.
- Write "ce" when you mean: Nombre de la letra c.
- Write "ces" when you mean: Estos.
- Write "se" when you mean: (se reflexivo) Pronombre reflexivo anafórico que establece una correferencialidad con el sujeto de la oración en tercera persona. Equival…
- Write "ze" when you mean: Nombre de la undécima letra del alfabeto árabe.
Each spelling
character · /ˈse/ · #324 frequency
Tercera letra del abecedario español y segunda consonante. Su nombre es ce.
pronoun · /se/ · #11 frequency
(se reflexivo) Pronombre reflexivo anafórico que establece una correferencialidad con el sujeto de la oración en tercera persona. Equivalente al caso dativo, por lo que admite el refuerzo “a sí mismo”.