Español homophones
pasos/Pazos
"pasos" is a noun; "Pazos" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "pasos" arrives as a noun, while "Pazos" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "pa" then splits - "pasos" (5 letters) vs "Pazos" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across pasos, Pazos: aops. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
pasos
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aops · no private letters vs siblings
Pazos
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aopsz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "pasos" when you mean: En algunos deportes, en especial el baloncesto y el balonmano, falta que consiste en dar más de tres pasos con la pelota en la mano sin b…
- Write "Pazos" when you mean: Apellido.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.