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.

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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.

  • emosemmos · emoss · emso · eoms · meos
  • hemosehmos · hemmos · hemoss · hemso · heoms · hhemos

Each spelling

emos

noun · /ˈemos/ · #35,485 frequency

Forma del plural de emo.

hemos

verb · /ˈemos/ · #339 frequency

Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de haber.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

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