Español homophones
cabe/cave
"cabe" is a noun; "cave" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "cabe" arrives as a noun, while "cave" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ca" then splits - "cabe" (4 letters) vs "cave" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cabe, cave: ace. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cabe
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory abce · private b
cave
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory acev · private v
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cabe" when you mean: Acción de atravesar la pierna en el camino de otro para hacerlo caer.
- Write "cave" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de cavar.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.