English homophones
adviser/advisor
"advisor" (#6,983 written frequency) beats "adviser" (#7,765) in this 2-word /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "advisor" leads at #6,983, with "adviser" trailing at #7,765.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "advis" then splits - "adviser" (7 letters) vs "advisor" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across adviser, advisor: adirsv. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
adviser
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCVC
Inventory adeirsv · private e
advisor
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCVC
Inventory adiorsv · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "adviser" when you mean: One who advises.
- Write "advisor" when you mean: One who offers advice.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
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- "advisor" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #6,983 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: Aryan · Arian. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "adviser, advisor" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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