Words that always have an accent mark
Hello, I am programming a piece of software that scans my Spanish essays and letters of correspondence, and one of the sections i created has to do with accents. For example, if I type "razon", a message will pop up saying "words ending in -zon" need an accent over the o" I am looking for more patterns like this. I had found a good website that allowed me to type in word endings and see samples of words, but recently had a system crash and the searches on Google to find the website have been fruitless, so I am going to ask here... Does anyone know if words with the following endings always have accents over the o?
-bon -ofobo -chon -con -otico
Thanks for any help! I appreciate it!
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Does anyone know if words with the following endings always have accents over the o?
-bon -ofobo -chon -con -otico
It might work most of the time, but it is not a rule. Nothing prevent me from creating a new word with any of those endings, and stress is in such a way, that the accent ends up somewhere else. The accents are there to reflect how the word is stressed. For example, the words "bon", "con" and "despotico" do not have an accent.
"words ending in -zon" need an accent over the o"
That's crazy. Even though all words ending in -zon so far happen to have the stress in that syllable (and hence an accent), I could make up a word that could become popular and end up in the dictionary, say "omazon", with the stress in "a", and this word should not be written with an accent at all, because of the spelling rules. All words ending in -zon (or any other ending) have an accent only if all those words happen to have the stress in the last syllable, and in Spanish the stress can be in any of the last three syllables.
Thanks for that. I have added that pattern to my code for checking, as well as -jon, -zon, -ologo, -afia
"Mafia" has the stress on the "a", and therefore, it has no accent. "Homologo" has the stress on the second "o", and therefore no accent. "Homologó" has the stress on the last syllable, and therefore, it has an accent on the last syllable.
The only way you can check whether your "patterns" apply to all the words in the dictionary is to check one by one all the words, included the conjugated forms of the verbs, and see if it works, but remember what I told you about new words that are created: the stress can be anywhere.
Isn't is simple to just use Word, change the language to Spanish in the Tools option, and let it show you what word are misspelled? Word uses lists of words instead of rules.
Perhaps the site you're looking for is this one:
You can search for words beginning with (whatever) and ending with (whatever)...
It also has good lists of prefixes, and suffixes.
99% of the time, any word ending with -ción will always have an accent on the 'o', as far as I know.
Laspalabras.net is the website I had and then lost! Thank you so much! And it appears (at least judging by the words that show up when I type in those endings) that they do always have accents.
Thanks again!
Hi,
Thanks for that. I have added that pattern to my code for checking, as well as -jon, -zon, -ologo, -afia and some others. I'm curious about what I posted up above, because I noticed words in a book I am reading, such as hidrofobo, menchon, babolicon, and narcotico, and some similar words that also had accents over the "o" - which makes me question whether they all have accents.
