Español homophones
mesa/meza
"mesa" is a noun; "meza" 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: "mesa" arrives as a noun, while "meza" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "me" then splits - "mesa" (4 letters) vs "meza" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across mesa, meza: aem. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
mesa
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aems · private s
meza
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aemz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "mesa" when you mean: Mueble que consta de una superficie plana y horizontal sostenida por patas.
- Write "meza" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de mecer.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.