Español homophones

sabia/savia

"sabia" is an adjective; "savia" 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: "sabia" arrives as an adjective, while "savia" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "sa" then splits - "sabia" (5 letters) vs "savia" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • sabia

    5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV

    Inventory abis · private b

  • savia

    5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV

    Inventory aisv · private v

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "sabia" when you mean: Forma del femenino singular de sabio.
  • Write "savia" when you mean: Líquido que corre por los vasos de las plantas portando los elementos y sustancias necesarias para su desarrollo.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • sabiaasbia · sabai · sabbia · saiba · sbaia · ssabia
  • saviaasvia · saiva · savai · savvia · ssavia · svaia

Each spelling

sabia

adjective · /ˈsaβ̞ja/ · #3,736 frequency

Forma del femenino singular de sabio.

savia

noun · /ˈsaβ̞ja/ · #31,116 frequency

Líquido que corre por los vasos de las plantas portando los elementos y sustancias necesarias para su desarrollo.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list