Español homophones
Bela/vela
"Bela" is a name; "vela" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Bela" arrives as a name, while "vela" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Bela" is 4 letters, "vela" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Bela, vela: ael. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Bela
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory abel · private b
vela
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aelv · private v
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Bela" when you mean: Apellido.
- Write "vela" when you mean: Cilindro de cera o grasa, atravesado longitudinalmente por una mecha o pábilo, usado para alumbrar.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.