Español homophones
Rosa/roza
"Rosa" is a name; "roza" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Rosa" arrives as a name, while "roza" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ro" then splits - "Rosa" (4 letters) vs "roza" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Rosa, roza: aor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Rosa
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aors · private s
roza
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aorz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Rosa" when you mean: Nombre de pila de mujer
- Write "roza" when you mean: Canal que se hace en un muro picándole de arriba abajo. Lo mismo es ceja, con la diferencia de que esta última es horizontal.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.