Español homophones
cara/kara
"cara" is a noun; "kara" 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: "cara" arrives as a noun, while "kara" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "cara" is 4 letters, "kara" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cara, kara: ar. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cara
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory acr · private c
kara
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory akr · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cara" when you mean: En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca.
- Write "kara" when you mean: Caro
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.