Español homophones

caso/cazo

"caso" (#157 written frequency) beats "cazo" (#35,406) in this 2-word /ˈkaso/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkaso/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "caso" leads at #157, with "cazo" trailing at #35,406.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "ca" then splits - "caso" (4 letters) vs "cazo" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across caso, cazo: aco. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • caso

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory acos · private s

  • cazo

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory acoz · private z

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "caso" when you mean: Cada una de varias instancias consideradas como pertenecientes a un mismo tipo de situaciones o cosas (como los casos de una enfermedad, …
  • Write "cazo" when you mean: Recipiente profundo y poco ancho, con mango largo y a veces pico, usado para calentar o cocer.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • casoacso · casso · ccaso · csao
  • cazoaczo · caoz · cazzo · ccazo · czao

Each spelling

caso

noun · /ˈkaso/ · #157 frequency

Cada una de varias instancias consideradas como pertenecientes a un mismo tipo de situaciones o cosas (como los casos de una enfermedad, etc.).

cazo

noun · /ˈkaso/ · #35,406 frequency

Recipiente profundo y poco ancho, con mango largo y a veces pico, usado para calentar o cocer.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list