Español homophones
emos/hemos
"emos" is a noun; "hemos" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "emos" arrives as a noun, while "hemos" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "emos" is 4 letters, "hemos" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across emos, hemos: emos. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
emos
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCVC
Inventory emos · no private letters vs siblings
hemos
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory ehmos · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "emos" when you mean: Forma del plural de emo.
- Write "hemos" when you mean: Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de haber.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.