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.

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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.

  • caraacra · caar · carra · ccara · craa
  • karaakra · kaar · karra · kkara · kraa

Each spelling

cara

noun · /ˈkaɾa/ · #444 frequency

En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca.

kara

adjective · /ˈka.ɾa/ · #20,407 frequency

Caro

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list