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.