# Cortés vs Cortez

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### Cortés
*name · IPA [koɾˈt̪es] · frequency rank #8,097*
Apellido.

### Cortez
*name · IPA [koɾˈt̪es] · frequency rank #29,568*
Apellido. Variante de Cortés.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/es/vs/cortes-vs-cortez