Español homophones

cita/sita

"cita" is a noun; "sita" 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: "cita" arrives as a noun, while "sita" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "cita" is 4 letters, "sita" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • cita

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory acit · private c

  • sita

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory aist · private s

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "cita" when you mean: Reunión de personas cuyo encuentro ha sido establecido anteriormente de común acuerdo.
  • Write "sita" when you mean: Forma del femenino de sito.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • citaccita · ciat · citta · ctia · icta
  • sitaista · siat · sitta · ssita · stia

Each spelling

cita

noun · /ˈsit̪a/ · #1,470 frequency

Reunión de personas cuyo encuentro ha sido establecido anteriormente de común acuerdo.

sita

adjective · /ˈsit̪a/ · #29,404 frequency

Forma del femenino de sito.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list