Español homophones
face/fase
"face" is a verb; "fase" 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: "face" arrives as a verb, while "fase" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "fa" then splits - "face" (4 letters) vs "fase" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across face, fase: aef. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
face
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory acef · private c
fase
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aefs · private s
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "face" when you mean: Variante obsoleta de hace.
- Write "fase" when you mean: Cada uno de los diversos aspectos que presenta un fenómeno natural o una cosa, doctrina, proceso, etc.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.