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.
Data vintage
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.