Español homophones

bota/vota

"bota" is a noun; "vota" is a verb - 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: "bota" arrives as a noun, while "vota" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "bota" is 4 letters, "vota" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • bota

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory abot · private b

  • vota

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory aotv · private v

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "bota" when you mean: Calzado que cubre los tobillos y parte de la pierna.
  • Write "vota" when you mean: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de votar.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • botabbota · boat · botta · btoa · obta
  • votaovta · voat · votta · vtoa · vvota

Each spelling

bota

noun · /ˈbot̪a/ · #15,025 frequency

Calzado que cubre los tobillos y parte de la pierna.

vota

verb · /ˈbot̪a/ · #5,575 frequency

Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de votar.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list