"Song" is a sharp word.
According to their accentuation , the words of the Spanish language can be classified as acute, serious , esdrújulas or sobreesdrújulas . Belonging to one or another group depends on the accentuation of each term.
The stressed syllable is the part of a word that is pronounced with greater emphasis, the one that is stressed . There are a series of spelling rules known as accentuation rules, which collect the rules to know if a word should have an accent or spelling accent. Depending on the type of word, these rules also vary.
What are the sharp words
Accents allow us to differentiate between words that are written with the same letters but mean different things. In oral language, this differentiation is given by the accentuation when intoning but, in writing, some mark is required to distinguish them. This happens with "dialogue" (spanish word), "dialogo" (serious word) and "dialogo" ( high-pitched word ).
Returning to the classification, acute words , also called oxytones , are those stressed on the last syllable . And, according to the rules of accentuation, they have an orthographic accent when they end with N , S or with a vowel letter.
Some examples:
*SONG: es una palabra aguda ya que está acentuada en la última sílaba (tion). La tilde aparece debido a que dicha palabra finaliza con la letra N y, de acuerdo a la regla ya mencionada, tiene que llevar acento ortográfico. Es importante señalar que el plural de este término ("songs") no pertenece al grupo de las palabras agudas sino que se convierte en una palabra grave y, según las reglas de acentuación, estas palabras no deben acentuarse si terminan en S; esto significa que el plural de canción no lleva tilde.
* BIG SHOT: esta es otra palabra aguda acentuada ya que su sílaba tónica se encuentra en la última partícula (further) y termina en S.
*I WILL SLEEP: esta conjugación del verbo dormir también lleva acento ortográfico porque la sílaba tónica se encuentra en la última partícula (re) y la palabra termina en vocal.
* CLAMOR: pese a que esta palabra aguda tiene su acento en la última sílaba (mor), como termina en la letra R no debe llevar tilde.
* TRUE: es el mismo caso del expuesto con antelación; sólo que en esta oportunidad la palabra termina en D.
* NARROWNESS: no lleva acento ortográfico porque, aunque su stressed syllable es la última (chez), termina en Z.
The acute word "Paraguay", ending in Y, does not have an accent.
accentuation of acute words
It is important to know when words should be accented but, perhaps even more relevant, to distinguish in which situations the accent should not be written, even though at first glance it should be.
* When a hiatus appears in an acute word (which separates the same syllable into two when formed by two strong vowels), the spelling accent should not be written.
* When an acute word ends in S and it is preceded by another consonant, we should not write the accent either. Such is the case of ballets or ticks.
* Nor should we accentuate orthographically those acute words that end in Y, such as Paraguay, viceroy or carey.
* In the case of monosyllables, they should not be accented either since they are not considered within the classification of acute words. However, a type of monosyllables known as diacritics must be accented. The diacritical accent appears to distinguish two identical words but with different meanings, such is the case of the following terms: tú / tu, te / tea, that / that one.
In summary: acute words should not be accented orthographically when they end in a consonant other than S or N (partir), when two consonants are joined in the last syllable (robots) and when they end in Y (convoy).