Español homophones
ciento/siento
"ciento" is an adjective; "siento" 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: "ciento" arrives as an adjective, while "siento" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "ciento" is 6 letters, "siento" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across ciento, siento: einot. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
ciento
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCV
Inventory ceinot · private c
siento
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCV
Inventory einost · private s
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "ciento" when you mean: Que vale diez veces diez.
- Write "siento" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de sentar.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.