Español homophones
capas/capaz
"capas" is a noun; "capaz" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "capas" arrives as a noun, while "capaz" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "capas" keeps s, "capaz" writes z at letter 5.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across capas, capaz: acp. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
capas
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory acps · private s
capaz
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory acpz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "capas" when you mean: Forma del plural de capa.
- Write "capaz" when you mean: Dicho de un recinto o recipiente, de gran volumen.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.