Español homophones
CD/cede/sede
"CD" is a noun; "cede" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "CD" arrives as a noun, while "cede" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "CD" is 2 letters, "cede" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "CD" is 2 letters, "sede" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "cede" is 4 letters, "sede" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across CD, cede, sede: d. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
CD
2 letters · 0 vowels · shape CC
Inventory cd · private c
cede
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory cde · private ce
sede
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory des · private es
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "CD" when you mean: Disco de plástico, de 12 cm de diámetro, recubierto con una delgada capa de aluminio usada para grabar datos en formato digital para ser …
- Write "cede" when you mean: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ceder.
- Write "sede" when you mean: Asiento ceremonial del prelado de una diócesis.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
noun · /seˈð̞e/ · #4,403 frequency
Disco de plástico, de 12 cm de diámetro, recubierto con una delgada capa de aluminio usada para grabar datos en formato digital para ser leído mediante el reflejo de un láser en su superficie. Se emplean para la grabación de música y datos
verb · /ˈseð̞e/ · #16,526 frequency
Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ceder.