Español homophones

ROC/rock

"ROC" is an abbrev; "rock" is a noun - 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: "ROC" arrives as an abbrev, while "rock" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "roc" then splits - "ROC" (3 letters) vs "rock" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across ROC, rock: cor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • ROC

    3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC

    Inventory cor · no private letters vs siblings

  • rock

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory ckor · private k

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "ROC" when you mean: Sigla de Reglamento Orgánico de Centro.
  • Write "rock" when you mean: Género musical contemporáneo que engloba cada uno de los diversos géneros musicales derivados del rock and roll. Suele interpretarse prin…

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • rockorck · rcok · rocck · rockk · rokc · rrock

Each spelling

ROC

abbrev · /ˈrok/ · #41,056 frequency

Sigla de Reglamento Orgánico de Centro.

rock

noun · /ˈrok/ · #2,367 frequency

Género musical contemporáneo que engloba cada uno de los diversos géneros musicales derivados del rock and roll. Suele interpretarse principalmente con guitarra eléctrica, batería, y bajo, aunque también se le adicionan muchos otros instrumentos.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list