¿Como lo deletreas...?

Question

First, will you please tell me if I spelled "como" correctly in the title. Should it have a tilde and be "cómo?"

Next, if I am spelling a word in Spanish that has a tilde, how would I say that? For example, what would I say, when spelling it, to indicate the "o" in "cómo" has a tilde.

Thanks for your help.

You need to use a tilde with como when asking a question, that goes for que, cual, quien and other such interrogational words, I'm pretty sure. Don't know the other bit :-) - afowen, Sep 7, 2011

Answer 1

in the title you need it with a accent so it can look like cómo.

como = like, as

cómo = how

and

como (i eat) comes from a verb comer (to eat)

Answer 2

When "cómo" means (how) it needs a tilde, whether in a question or in a statement. When it means (as) or (like) it dosen't.

You would just say "o con tilde".

Answer 3

The accent is not just to differentiate graphically between como (=like) and cómo (=how), but also because the conjunction is pronounced totally unstressed, and the interrogative "cómo" is pronounced stressed. Ask a native to read this for you, to hear the difference:

¿Como todo el mundo? ¿Cómo que como todo el mundo?

Answer 4

The others are correct that the word como requires an accent, but it is not a tilde. The tilde is the ? that goes over the ñ. It is also used in formal logic problems. It is differentiated from the accent mark by how it looks. I would deletrear the word cómo, by saying o con acento. Calling it a tilde would be incorrect.

We covered this often. Tilde in Spanish is closer to "punctuation mark" See the R A E definition. It is more general than "tilde" in English. ...cualquier otro signo que sirva para distinguir una letra de otra o denotar su acentuación. - 0074b507, Sep 7, 2011

Of course, if you are writing your explanation in English, using "tilde" in that manner is Spanglish. - 0074b507, Sep 7, 2011

Answer 5

Yes, it needs a tilde. When used in a question these words (cómo, dónde, qué, etc.) do, compared to when they are in statements.

I don't know about the second question.