Español homophones

ballet/vale

"vale" (#638 written frequency) beats "ballet" (#10,616) in this 2-word /baˈle/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /baˈle/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "vale" leads at #638, with "ballet" trailing at #10,616.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "ballet" is 6 letters, "vale" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • ballet

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory abelt · private bt

  • vale

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory aelv · private v

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "ballet" when you mean: Estilo académico de danza, derivado del practicado en la corte francesa en el siglo XVII, y habitualmente ejecutado al compás de música c…
  • Write "vale" when you mean: Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • balletabllet · balelt · balet · ballett · ballte · bballet
  • valeavle · bale · vael · vlae · vvale

Each spelling

ballet

noun · /baˈle/ · #10,616 frequency

Estilo académico de danza, derivado del practicado en la corte francesa en el siglo XVII, y habitualmente ejecutado al compás de música clásica.

vale

noun · /ˈbale/ · #638 frequency

Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

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