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Homophones

This document lists numerous pairs of homophone words in Spanish, where each pair consists of two words that sound the same but are written and mean differently. Some examples include abollar/aboyar, abrasar/abrazar, and asar/azar. The document provides a concise description of homophones and an extensive list of them to illustrate the complexity of pronunciation in Spanish.
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Homophones

This document lists numerous pairs of homophone words in Spanish, where each pair consists of two words that sound the same but are written and mean differently. Some examples include abollar/aboyar, abrasar/abrazar, and asar/azar. The document provides a concise description of homophones and an extensive list of them to illustrate the complexity of pronunciation in Spanish.
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Homophones are words that are spelled differently but sound the same and have a

different meanings between them, in other words, those that have the same pronunciation, but their
spelling is different and its meaning different.

Abollar = (to create dents on an object of Aboyar = (to place buoys in the sea to stop
metal networks or impose limitations)

to burn Hoe = (from hoe)


to hug
(cooking over fire)
(to kill, to take life) orange blossom
To cure (to salt meats) chance

rough ascent
Collection = (set) consent

Acetic (vinegar) Asia = (continent)


(hermit or practitioner of virtue) Towards = (preposition)

Adolescent = (person who suffers; has) Asta = (animal horn; large wood)
pain) Until = (preposition)
teenager (young person in puberty)
Shortcut = (to cut through)
opened herd of animals
There would be (of having to have)
nanny
Agito = (to beat something) Halla = (to find)
Ajito = (diminutive of the garlic plant) Haya = (from haber and city in Holland)

Worship = (to worship God) (act of speaking)


(pulling a rope) (softening something)

there Bah!
ouch! Va = (acceptance or consent)
There is/There are (from the verb 'to have')
Bacchante (worshipper of the god Bacchus)
Alón = (bird limb) (unoccupied)
Halon = (it is a chemical gas)
Basin = (container)
(something loose like dresses) Empty = (unoccupied)
Thug = (criminal)
bacteria
Art = (plastic work, painting or sculpture) Joke = (to hesitate or joke)
Hard = (hasty of a person)
Baqueta = (piece for cleaning the shotgun; part
to play the drums or drum
Vaqueta = (leather or canvas from a cow)

Run over = (hit; wrap something in Baca = (top of a used car)


roll form to store things)
Arroyar = (to create streams of water or liquid) Cow = (ruminant animal)

Capture Barium = (white metal)


(acquire knowledge, study) Vario = (diverse)

Ace = (playing card) Baron = (noble title)


Has = (to have) Man = (man)
Haze = (from doing, bundle)
coarse
Asada = (from the verb to roast) vast
Baya = (strawberry) Mow the grass
(fence or enclosure)
go to a place dinner
Seine = (French river)
Bleating = (sound of animals like sheep)
Valid = (acceptance of something) (person who has dinner or eats)
Senator = (member of the Senate)
Spleen = (organ of the body or intestine)
glass, ceramic or clay container (to seal or cover something)
Sawing = (cutting with a serrated saw)
Beautiful or pretty
Vello = (thin hair) Cession = (to give or grant something to someone)
(meeting, conference or gathering)
Ben = (leguminous tree)
Come = (from the verb to come) One hundred = (derived from one hundred - number 100)
Temple = (part of the head)
Goods = (wealth or assets)
You come = (from to come) Deer (venison)
Servant = (slave or servant)
To throw = (to jump)
Vote = (to cast an electoral vote) height
depth
manual laborer
Brasero = (metal piece that serves as a stove) Cement = (to cement a construction, to put
firm)
Brasa = (ember fragment of charcoal seed
incandescent
Braza = (ancient measure) appointment or meeting
Sita = (located or position)
Caba = (place to store wines)
(action of digging and making a hole) (to boil something)
Sewing = (making clothing)
Cause = (effect of causing something)
Channel = (gap through which water flows) council
advice (an opinion that is given or asked for)
(extreme, wick or military rank)
Cavo = (from the verb to excavate) Corsican = (inhabitant of Corsica)
roe deer
Silent = (from to silence)
staff used by shepherds Discard (comes from Discarding)
segment of the anastomosis artery Deshecha = (comes from undo)

Callus = (hardness of the skin) To cause = (to form a cause; to consign or to follow)
(islet) research)
Channel = (to give cause, or gap)
You get tired (of getting tired)
Kansas = (Region of the U.S.) Erring = (being errant or living from one side to another)
Horseshoeing = (putting on metal shoes or horseshoes)
House
Hunting = (of a hunt) Ethics = (philosophy or science of Greek morality)
(fever)
to hunt (to catch animals)
To marry = (to enter into marriage) Faces = (plural of the guy's face)
(plural of phase)
(food, fuse in dynamite)
tallow = (hard fat from animals) Rooster = (farm animal)
(cheerful, colorful)
Cede = (to cede or to concede)
Venue = (place of meeting or work) Gaza = (strip of territory located in Palestine)
Sterilized cloth for dressings
to blind (to lose sight)
Gira = (to rotate an object)
Jira = (country outing) Meza = (Spanish surname or to rock)
Table = (household furniture)
Record = (to save a video or voice)
Charge = (impose tariffs or levies) Pulla = (irony)
(pole or spike)
Halá = (colloquial word to give encouragement to
someone) Rallar = (to shred something)
Wing = (the limb of birds with which they can (mark lines)
to fly
Rasa = (to flatten or to level something)
(plant) (race, origin)
(to cook, to boil or to heat)
(to rise up against authority)
Iron = (metal) to reveal (to discover something)
error
Wise person = (someone with wisdom)
(to flip through the pages of a book) Savia = (vegetable juice)
(to glance over something or a place)
rice alcoholic beverage made in
Hello! Japan
wave = (movement of water in the sea) Saque = (from the verb sacar)

Fact = (circumstance or event) Zacarias = (comes from to take)


(to throw or to launch) Zachariah

Honda = (derives from deep in feminine gender) Swedish = (person from Sweden)
Wave = (colloquial greeting) clogs (wooden shoe)

Hour (measure of time) Sumo = (supreme or great)


Ora = (religious prayer) Fruit juice

Hyena (savanah animal) had


Fill = (from the verb to fill) Tube = (element of steel or plastic where it passes
water or liquid
Spindle = (device for spinning)
(activity or custom) Tazar = (to fold something along its creases -clothing-)
Tasar = (to define the value or price of something)
Beginning (that is just starting)
ignorant Rate = (to assess)
cup (small vessel)
(mil)
Quilo = (a way to refer to the liquid) You = (personal pronoun)
Voice = (sound of human speech)
Slab = (carved stone)
Loza = (clay turned into utensils)

mesh (fabric)
(pre-Columbian American culture)

Dough = (kneaded flour)


Mace = (medieval weapon)

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