Español homophones
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.