English homophones
ama/armor
"armor" (#7,416 written frequency) beats "ama" (#15,325) in this 2-word /ˈɑː.mə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈɑː.mə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "armor" leads at #7,416, with "ama" trailing at #15,325.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "ama" is 3 letters, "armor" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across ama, armor: am. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
ama
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory am · no private letters vs siblings
armor
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCVC
Inventory amor · private or
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "ama" when you mean: Alternative spelling of amah.
- Write "armor" when you mean: A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- armor ← amror · armmor · armorr · armro · aromr · arrmor
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (ama, armor). Here's where to go from here.
- "armor" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,416 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: Aries · Ares. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "ama, armor" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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