Español homophones

coger/cojer

"coger" (#3,682 written frequency) beats "cojer" (#21,256) in this 2-word /koˈxeɾ/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /koˈxeɾ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "coger" leads at #3,682, with "cojer" trailing at #21,256.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "co" then splits - "coger" (5 letters) vs "cojer" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • coger

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC

    Inventory cegor · private g

  • cojer

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC

    Inventory cejor · private j

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "coger" when you mean: Aproximar las manos hacia algo para retenerlo.
  • Write "cojer" when you mean: Grafía obsoleta o no estándar de coger.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • cogerccoger · cgoer · coegr · cogerr · cogger · cogre
  • cojerccojer · cjoer · coejr · cojerr · cojjer · cojre

Each spelling

coger

verb · /koˈxeɾ/ · #3,682 frequency

Aproximar las manos hacia algo para retenerlo.

cojer

verb · /koˈxeɾ/ · #21,256 frequency

Grafía obsoleta o no estándar de coger.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list