English homophones
ante/auntie
"ante" (#18,757 written frequency) beats "auntie" (#19,525) in this 2-word /ˈænti/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈænti/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "ante" leads at #18,757, with "auntie" trailing at #19,525.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "ante" is 4 letters, "auntie" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across ante, auntie: aent. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
ante
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCV
Inventory aent · no private letters vs siblings
auntie
6 letters · 4 vowels · shape VVCCVV
Inventory aeintu · private iu
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "ante" when you mean: A price or cost, as in up the ante.
- Write "auntie" when you mean: Diminutive of aunt.
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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- "ante" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #18,757 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: aims · Ames. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "ante, auntie" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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