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Ceballos/Cevallos/Zeballos

"Ceballos" (#21,249 written frequency) beats "Cevallos" (#30,379) in this 3-word /seˈβ̞aʝos/ cluster. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 3 spellings keep the same /seˈβ̞aʝos/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Ceballos" leads at #21,249, with "Cevallos" trailing at #30,379.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "ce" then splits - "Ceballos" (8 letters) vs "Cevallos" (8).
  • No shared spelling stem: "Ceballos" is 8 letters, "Zeballos" is 8; only the sound ties them.
  • No shared spelling stem: "Cevallos" is 8 letters, "Zeballos" is 8; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across Ceballos, Cevallos, Zeballos: aelos. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • Ceballos

    8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVCCVC

    Inventory abcelos · private bc

  • Cevallos

    8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVCCVC

    Inventory acelosv · private cv

  • Zeballos

    8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVCCVC

    Inventory abelosz · private bz

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Ceballos" when you mean: Apellido
  • Write "Cevallos" when you mean: Apellido.
  • Write "Zeballos" when you mean: Apellido.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Ceballoscbeallos · cceballos · ceabllos · ceballoss · ceballso · cebalols
  • Cevallosccevallos · ceavllos · cevalloss · cevallso · cevalols · cevalos
  • Zeballosezballos · zbeallos · zeabllos · zeballoss · zeballso · zebalols

Each spelling

Ceballos

name · /seˈβ̞aʝos/ · #21,249 frequency

Apellido

Cevallos

name · /seˈβ̞aʝos/ · #30,379 frequency

Apellido.

Zeballos

name · /seˈβ̞aʝos/ · #43,336 frequency

Apellido.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list