Español homophones

baso/bazo/vaso

"baso" is an adjective; "vaso" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #6 of 387 Spanish groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "baso" arrives as an adjective, while "vaso" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "ba" then splits - "baso" (4 letters) vs "bazo" (4).
  • No shared spelling stem: "baso" is 4 letters, "vaso" is 4; only the sound ties them.
  • No shared spelling stem: "bazo" is 4 letters, "vaso" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across baso, bazo, vaso: ao. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • baso

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory abos · private bs

  • bazo

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory aboz · private bz

  • vaso

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory aosv · private sv

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "baso" when you mean: Variante obsoleta de bajo.
  • Write "bazo" when you mean: De color marrón amarillento.
  • Write "vaso" when you mean: Objeto de forma cóncava que es capaz de contener algo en su interior.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • basoabso · baos · basso · bbaso · bsao
  • bazoabzo · baoz · bazzo · bbazo · bzao · vazo
  • vasoavso · vaos · vasso · vsao · vvaso

Each spelling

baso

adjective · /ˈbaso/ · #42,293 frequency

Variante obsoleta de bajo.

bazo

adjective · /ˈbaso/ · #31,666 frequency

De color marrón amarillento.

vaso

noun · /ˈbaso/ · #4,129 frequency

Objeto de forma cóncava que es capaz de contener algo en su interior.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

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