Español homophones
ace/ase/hace
"ace" is a noun; "ase" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "ace" arrives as a noun, while "ase" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "ace" is 3 letters, "ase" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "ace" is 3 letters, "hace" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "ase" is 3 letters, "hace" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across ace, ase, hace: ae. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
ace
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory ace · private c
ase
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory aes · private s
hace
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aceh · private ch
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "ace" when you mean: En el tenis y otros deportes similares, y en el vóley, tanto que se gana con el saque y sin que el rival pueda tocar la pelota.
- Write "ase" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de asar.
- Write "hace" when you mean: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de hacer.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- hace ← ahce · hacce · haec · hase · hcae · hhace
Each spelling
noun · /ˈase/ · #16,245 frequency
En el tenis y otros deportes similares, y en el vóley, tanto que se gana con el saque y sin que el rival pueda tocar la pelota.
verb · /ˈase/ · #30,766 frequency
Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de asar.
verb · /ˈase/ · #68 frequency
Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de hacer.