Español homophones
hora/ora
"hora" is a noun; "ora" is a conjunction - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "hora" arrives as a noun, while "ora" is a conjunction. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "hora" is 4 letters, "ora" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hora, ora: aor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hora
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory ahor · private h
ora
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory aor · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hora" when you mean: Cada una de las 24 partes de igual duración en que se divide el día, a su vez subdivididas cada una de ellas en 60 minutos.
- Write "ora" when you mean: Expresa posibilidades que se contraponen, como alternancia en el tiempo o disyuntiva lógica.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- hora ← hhora · hoar · horra · hroa · ohra