Español homophones

hola/ola

"hola" is an intj; "ola" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

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

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "hola" is 4 letters, "ola" is 3; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • hola

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory ahlo · private h

  • ola

    3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV

    Inventory alo · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "hola" when you mean: Expresión de saludo utilizada entre dos o más personas de trato familiar, sin importar el momento del día ni las circunstancias.
  • Write "ola" when you mean: Ondas que se desplazan por la superficie de cursos de agua, puestas en marcha por el viento, y son el principal agente de modelado de las…

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • holahhola · hloa · hoal · holla · ohla

Each spelling

hola

intj · /ˈola/ · #433 frequency

Expresión de saludo utilizada entre dos o más personas de trato familiar, sin importar el momento del día ni las circunstancias.

ola

noun · /ˈola/ · #4,811 frequency

Ondas que se desplazan por la superficie de cursos de agua, puestas en marcha por el viento, y son el principal agente de modelado de las costas.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list