English homophones
aren't/aunt
2 "aren't, aunt" spellings share pronunciation /ɑːnt/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Meaning separates the spellings
aren't, aunt are held together only by pronunciation /ɑːnt/. With no grammar or frequency gap large enough to tip the choice, read each definition before you commit a spelling.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "aren't" is 6 letters, "aunt" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across aren't, aunt: ant. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
aren't
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCVCC
Inventory aenrt · private er
aunt
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVCC
Inventory antu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "aren't" when you mean: are not (negative auxiliary)
- Write "aunt" when you mean: The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- aunt ← anut · aunnt · auntt · autn · uant
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (aren't, aunt). Here's where to go from here.
- "aunt" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #5,478 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: ascent · assent. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "aren't, aunt" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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