Español homophones
Baldes/Valdez/Valdés
"Valdez" (#20,540 written frequency) beats "Baldes" (#47,585) in this 3-word /ˈbal̪d̪es/ cluster. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /ˈbal̪d̪es/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Valdez" leads at #20,540, with "Baldes" trailing at #47,585.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Baldes" is 6 letters, "Valdez" is 6; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Baldes" is 6 letters, "Valdés" is 6; only the sound ties them.
- Shared stem "vald" then splits - "Valdez" (6 letters) vs "Valdés" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Baldes, Valdez, Valdés: adl. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Baldes
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory abdels · private bes
Valdez
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory adelvz · private evz
Valdés
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory adlsvé · private své
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Baldes" when you mean: Apellido.
- Write "Valdez" when you mean: Apellido
- Write "Valdés" 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.