Español homophones
kiosco/kiosko/quiosco
"kiosco" (#26,507 written frequency) beats "quiosco" (#31,515) in this 3-word /ˈkjosko/ cluster. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /ˈkjosko/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "kiosco" leads at #26,507, with "quiosco" trailing at #31,515.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "kios" then splits - "kiosco" (6 letters) vs "kiosko" (6).
- No shared spelling stem: "kiosco" is 6 letters, "quiosco" is 7; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "kiosko" is 6 letters, "quiosco" is 7; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across kiosco, kiosko, quiosco: ios. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
kiosco
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCV
Inventory cikos · private ck
kiosko
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCV
Inventory ikos · private k
quiosco
7 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVVVCCV
Inventory cioqsu · private cqu
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "kiosco" when you mean: Grafía alternativa de quiosco.
- Write "kiosko" when you mean: Grafía poco usada de quiosco.
- Write "quiosco" when you mean: Pabellón al aire libre, por lo general abierto, empleado para reuniones sociales y otros eventos.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.