Español homophones

tasa/taza

"tasa" (#2,136 written frequency) beats "taza" (#6,735) in this 2-word /ˈt̪asa/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈt̪asa/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "tasa" leads at #2,136, with "taza" trailing at #6,735.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "ta" then splits - "tasa" (4 letters) vs "taza" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across tasa, taza: at. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • tasa

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory ast · private s

  • taza

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory atz · private z

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "tasa" when you mean: Magnitud medida en relación a otra. Generalmente es el resultado de dividir dos cantidades.
  • Write "taza" when you mean: Vasija pequeña, con un asa, que se posa sobre un platillo, usada comúnmente para tomar líquidos calientes.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • tasaatsa · taas · tassa · tsaa · ttasa
  • tazaatza · taaz · tazza · ttaza · tzaa

Each spelling

tasa

noun · /ˈt̪asa/ · #2,136 frequency

Magnitud medida en relación a otra. Generalmente es el resultado de dividir dos cantidades.

taza

noun · /ˈt̪asa/ · #6,735 frequency

Vasija pequeña, con un asa, que se posa sobre un platillo, usada comúnmente para tomar líquidos calientes.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list