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.

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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.

  • capasacpas · caaps · capass · cappas · capsa · ccapas
  • capazacpaz · caapz · capazz · cappaz · capza · ccapaz

Each spelling

capas

noun · /ˈkapas/ · #5,288 frequency

Forma del plural de capa.

capaz

adjective · /kaˈpas/ · #908 frequency

Dicho de un recinto o recipiente, de gran volumen.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list