Español homophones

tour/Tur

"tour" is a noun; "Tur" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "tour" arrives as a noun, while "Tur" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "tour" is 4 letters, "Tur" is 3; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • tour

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC

    Inventory ortu · private o

  • Tur

    3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC

    Inventory rtu · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "tour" when you mean: Viaje de un artista, o por extensión de un turista, recorriendo varias plazas antes de retornar a su punto de partida
  • Write "Tur" when you mean: Apellido.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • tourotur · toru · tourr · ttour · tuor

Each spelling

tour

noun · /ˈt̪uɾ/ · #4,385 frequency

Viaje de un artista, o por extensión de un turista, recorriendo varias plazas antes de retornar a su punto de partida

Tur

name · /ˈt̪uɾ/ · #43,311 frequency

Apellido.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list