Español homophones
mejicanos/mexicanos
"mejicanos" is a noun; "mexicanos" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "mejicanos" arrives as a noun, while "mexicanos" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "me" then splits - "mejicanos" (9 letters) vs "mexicanos" (9).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across mejicanos, mexicanos: aceimnos. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
mejicanos
9 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCVCVCVC
Inventory aceijmnos · private j
mexicanos
9 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCVCVCVC
Inventory aceimnosx · private x
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "mejicanos" when you mean: Forma del plural de mejicano.
- Write "mexicanos" when you mean: Forma del masculino plural de mexicano.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.