English homophones
Anthony/Antony
"Anthony" (#3,541 written frequency) beats "Antony" (#17,537) in this 2-word /ˈæntəni/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈæntəni/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Anthony" leads at #3,541, with "Antony" trailing at #17,537.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ant" then splits - "Anthony" (7 letters) vs "Antony" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Anthony, Antony: anoty. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Anthony
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCCVCV
Inventory ahnoty · private h
Antony
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCV
Inventory anoty · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Anthony" when you mean: A male given name from Latin, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
- Write "Antony" when you mean: A male given name from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.
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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- "Anthony" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,541 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: ache · ake. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Anthony, Antony" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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