Español homophones
cepa/sepa
"cepa" is a noun; "sepa" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "cepa" arrives as a noun, while "sepa" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "cepa" is 4 letters, "sepa" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cepa, sepa: aep. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cepa
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory acep · private c
sepa
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aeps · private s
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cepa" when you mean: Parte más gruesa del tronco, o tallo, adherida a las raíces y que queda bajo tierra.
- Write "sepa" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de saber.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.