Español homophones
peace/piece/pis
"pis" (#19,527 written frequency) beats "peace" (#20,451) in this 3-word /piːs/ cluster. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /piːs/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "pis" leads at #19,527, with "peace" trailing at #20,451.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "peace" is 5 letters, "piece" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "peace" is 5 letters, "pis" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- Shared stem "pi" then splits - "piece" (5 letters) vs "pis" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across peace, piece, pis: p. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
peace
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory acep · private ace
piece
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory ceip · private cei
pis
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ips · private is
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "peace" when you mean: Paz.
- Write "piece" when you mean: Pieza, trozo, pedazo.
- Write "pis" when you mean: Secreción líquida de los riñones, conducida a la vejiga por los uréteres y expelida por la uretra.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.