Español homophones

veras/veraz

"veras" is a noun; "veraz" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

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

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Single-letter fork: "veras" keeps s, "veraz" writes z at letter 5.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • veras

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC

    Inventory aersv · private s

  • veraz

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC

    Inventory aervz · private z

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "veras" when you mean: Realidad, verdad y seriedad en las cosas que se hacen o dicen, o la eficacia, fervor y actividad con que se ejecutan.
  • Write "veraz" when you mean: Que tiene la intención de decir o alcanzar la verdad.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • verasberas · evras · vears · verass · verras · vreas
  • verazberaz · evraz · vearz · verazz · verraz · verza

Each spelling

veras

noun · /ˈbeɾas/ · #5,789 frequency

Realidad, verdad y seriedad en las cosas que se hacen o dicen, o la eficacia, fervor y actividad con que se ejecutan.

veraz

adjective · /beˈɾas/ · #21,186 frequency

Que tiene la intención de decir o alcanzar la verdad.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list