Español homophones

Tejas/Texas

"Texas" (#4,956 written frequency) beats "Tejas" (#19,578) in this 2-word /ˈt̪exas/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈt̪exas/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Texas" leads at #4,956, with "Tejas" trailing at #19,578.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "te" then splits - "Tejas" (5 letters) vs "Texas" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • Tejas

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC

    Inventory aejst · private j

  • Texas

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC

    Inventory aestx · private x

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Tejas" when you mean: Grafía anticuada de Texas.
  • Write "Texas" when you mean: Uno de los estados que conforman los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en el sur del país. Limita con México y con los estados de Luisia…

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Tejasetjas · teajs · tejass · tejjas · tejsa · tjeas
  • Texasetxas · teaxs · texass · texsa · texxas · ttexas

Each spelling

Tejas

name · /ˈt̪exas/ · #19,578 frequency

Grafía anticuada de Texas.

Texas

name · /ˈt̪exas/ · #4,956 frequency

Uno de los estados que conforman los Estados Unidos de América, ubicado en el sur del país. Limita con México y con los estados de Luisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma y Nuevo México.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list