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.
- tour ← otur · toru · tourr · ttour · tuor