Español homophones

sara/Zara

"sara" is a noun; "Zara" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "sara" arrives as a noun, while "Zara" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "sara" is 4 letters, "Zara" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • sara

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory ars · private s

  • Zara

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory arz · private z

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "sara" when you mean: Sargento.
  • Write "Zara" 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.

  • saraasra · saar · sarra · sraa · ssara
  • Zarazarra · zraa · zzara

Each spelling

sara

noun · /ˈsaɾa/ · #5,667 frequency

Sargento.

Zara

name · /ˈsaɾa/ · #21,876 frequency

Apellido.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list