Español homophones
cepas/sepas
"cepas" is a noun; "sepas" 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: "cepas" arrives as a noun, while "sepas" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "cepas" is 5 letters, "sepas" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cepas, sepas: aeps. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cepas
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aceps · private c
sepas
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aeps · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cepas" when you mean: Forma del plural de cepa.
- Write "sepas" when you mean: Segunda persona del singular (tú) 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.