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.