Basic Rules of Spelling
Spanish Classes / / July 04, 2021
The basic rules of spelling are:
"B" is used in words ending in bundo, bunda, ble and bility: vagabond, tremebunda, amiable, stability.
The "b" is used when it is followed by a consonant: subdirector, obstacle, white, rough.
The forms of conjugation corresponding to verbs ending in bir, are written with "b" except three, boil, serve and live.
Write "v" in compound words that begin with villa or vice: vice president, Villanueva.
Voices ending in viro, vira, ivoro, are noted with "v": reviro, Elvira, insectivore.
After b, d and n, write "v": subversive, warning, investigation.
Write "v" after "ol": solvency, wrap, dust.
When the words begin with "ia, ie, ua, ue, ui", they carry "h": hiatus, ice, huasteco, smell, escape.
All conjugations of the verb have and do carry "h": hube, han, will have, done, done.
When words end in aged, ancio, encia ^ encio, uncía, unció, they are written with "c": gain, stale, essence, silence, resignation, announcement; Except Hydrangea and Craving.
Write with "c" nouns ending in tion, derived from words ending in "do, to" such as: story - relationship.
Write "s" in adjectives that end in osa, bear: ambitious, religious.
Write "s" in nouns ending in zion, which come from adjectives ending in so, sible, sivo, and sor: extensive extension, visible vision, expansive expansion, reviewer, revision.
The ending sis is written with "s": synthesis, crisis.
The adjectives whose ending is "oz" or "az", carry "z": speedy, truthful.
Write with "z" the words with verb endings az-co, azca, ezco, ezca, ozco, ozca, uzeo, uzea: stay, please, I know, I look.
In verbs that end in hoisting and words in anza, write "z"; make, legalize, semblance, belly.
Derived words are written with the same spelling as primitives: concise from concise, laundry to wash.
Before the syllables pre, pri, pro, pía, pli, write "x": expressive, esplanade, explained, exprofeso, squeezed.
In compounds of the prefix "ex" and words beginning with "c", write "xc": exceeded, release.
Write "x", when the sound fully indicates it, such as: successes, exams. Just as before h: exhibit, I urge.
At the end of the syllable, before "m" or "n", write "g": diagnosis, fragment.
The words that begin with legi or legis, are annotated with g, legitimate, legislative.
Verbs ending in "giar" are written with "g", as well as their derivatives: contagiar, contagioso.
Write with "j" the past indicative as well as the past and future subjunctive of verbs ending in say, bring and ducir, even before e, i: reduce, distracted, reproduced.
At the beginning of a word, the "red r1, ray, Reynosa is always pronounced loudly."
In the middle of a word the loud sound of the "r" is noted as follows:
a) With double r, if it is between two vowels: railroad, Monterrey;
b) With an r, if it is between consonant and vowel: chickpea, hook
The "r" is doubled in compound words like: king, viceroy, lightning, lightning rod.