Español homophones
días/Díaz
"días" and "Díaz" differ by a single letter under the same /ˈd̪ias/ reading. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
One letter, same sound
A one-letter spelling fork under one pronunciation: "días" vs "Díaz". The eye catches the letter; the ear does not - confirm meaning, not sound.
The letter that splits them
- Single-letter fork: "días" keeps s, "Díaz" writes z at letter 4.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across días, Díaz: adí. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
días
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory adsí · private s
Díaz
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory adzí · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "días" when you mean: Forma del plural de día.
- Write "Díaz" when you mean: Apellido