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.

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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.

  • pasosapsos · paoss · pasoss · passos · ppasos · psaos
  • Pazosapzos · paozs · pazoss · pazso · pazzos · ppazos

Each spelling

pasos

noun · /ˈpasos/ · #1,952 frequency

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 botarla.

Pazos

name · /ˈpasos/ · #41,531 frequency

Apellido.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list