interlingual homographs are words that are pronounced the same in english and spanish.
words that are pronounced the same in english and spanish?
interlingual homographs
many of the words in the list are latin cognates. because spanish is a romance language (which means it evolved from latin), many of its words are either inherited from latin or derive from latin words. although english is a germanic language, it, too, incorporates thousands of latinate words that are related to words in spanish. yet even with so many latin cognates, only a small minority are written precisely the same in both languages.









































even though the words in this list are written the same in both languages, none of them are pronounced the same—not even the word "no".
list of english–spanish interlingual homographs
as words are naturalized into english, sometimes diacritics are added to imported words that originally didn't have any, often to distinguish them from common english words or to otherwise assist in proper pronunciation. in the cases of maté from spanish "mate" (; ), animé from japanese anime, and "latté" or even "lattè" from italian "latte" (; ), an accent on the final "e" indicates that the word is pronounced with a long a sound (the diphthong , ) at the end, rather than the "e" being silent. examples of a partial removal include resumé (from the french résumé) and haček (from the czech háček) because of the change in pronunciation of the initial vowels. complete naturalization stripping all diacritics also has occurred, in words such as "canyon", from the spanish "cañón". for accurate readings, some speech writers use diacritics to differentiate homographs, such as "lēad" (pronounced like "leed") and "lĕad" (pronounced like "led"). not to be forgotten are adjectives such as "learnèd" and "belovèd", which are pronounced with two and three syllables respectively, unlike the past participles "learned" and "beloved", which are each pronounced with one fewer syllable.
english terms with diacritical marks