Español homophones

arto/harto

"arto" is a noun; "harto" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "arto" arrives as a noun, while "harto" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "arto" is 4 letters, "harto" is 5; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • arto

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCV

    Inventory aort · no private letters vs siblings

  • harto

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV

    Inventory ahort · private h

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "arto" when you mean: Cambronera.
  • Write "harto" when you mean: Que tiene fastidio o cansancio.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • artoarot · arrto · artto · atro
  • hartoahrto · harot · harrto · hartto · hatro · hharto

Each spelling

arto

noun · /ˈaɾt̪o/ · #40,136 frequency

Cambronera.

harto

adjective · /ˈaɾt̪o/ · #5,516 frequency

Que tiene fastidio o cansancio.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list