Español homophones

grabar/gravar

"grabar" (#4,340 written frequency) beats "gravar" (#33,634) in this 2-word /gɾaˈβ̞aɾ/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /gɾaˈβ̞aɾ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "grabar" leads at #4,340, with "gravar" trailing at #33,634.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "gra" then splits - "grabar" (6 letters) vs "gravar" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • grabar

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC

    Inventory abgr · private b

  • gravar

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC

    Inventory agrv · private v

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "grabar" when you mean: Labrar —en relieve o en hueco— sobre una superficie dura algún símbolo, señal, texto, figura o representación.
  • Write "gravar" when you mean: Cargar, pesar sobre una persona o cosa.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • grabargarbar · ggrabar · graabr · grabarr · grabbar · grabra
  • gravargarvar · ggravar · graavr · gravarr · gravra · gravvar

Each spelling

grabar

verb · /gɾaˈβ̞aɾ/ · #4,340 frequency

Labrar —en relieve o en hueco— sobre una superficie dura algún símbolo, señal, texto, figura o representación.

gravar

verb · /gɾaˈβ̞aɾ/ · #33,634 frequency

Cargar, pesar sobre una persona o cosa.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list