Español homophones
encima/enzima
"encima" is an adverb; "enzima" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "encima" arrives as an adverb, while "enzima" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "en" then splits - "encima" (6 letters) vs "enzima" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across encima, enzima: aeimn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
encima
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCV
Inventory aceimn · private c
enzima
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCV
Inventory aeimnz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "encima" when you mean: Arriba de.
- Write "enzima" when you mean: Proteína fabricada por un organismo vivo, que permite acelerar reacciones químicas o hace posibles aquellas que no se producirían. Dicho …
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
noun · /ẽnˈsima/ · #26,432 frequency
Proteína fabricada por un organismo vivo, que permite acelerar reacciones químicas o hace posibles aquellas que no se producirían. Dicho de otro modo, catalizador biológico de las reacciones bioquímicas del metabolismo de un ser vivo.