English homophones
aural/oral
"oral" (#4,620 written frequency) beats "aural" (#37,810) in this 2-word /ˈɔːɹəl/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈɔːɹəl/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "oral" leads at #4,620, with "aural" trailing at #37,810.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "aural" is 5 letters, "oral" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across aural, oral: alr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
aural
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCVC
Inventory alru · private u
oral
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCVC
Inventory alor · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "aural" when you mean: Of or pertaining to the ear.
- Write "oral" when you mean: Relating to the mouth.
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
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (aural, oral). Here's where to go from here.
- "oral" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,620 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: air · ere. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "aural, oral" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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