English homophones
Barclay/Berkeley
"Berkeley" (#7,887 written frequency) beats "Barclay" (#22,583) in this 2-word /ˈbɑː.kli/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈbɑː.kli/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Berkeley" leads at #7,887, with "Barclay" trailing at #22,583.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Barclay" is 7 letters, "Berkeley" is 8; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Barclay, Berkeley: blry. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Barclay
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCCVV
Inventory abclry · private ac
Berkeley
8 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCCVCVV
Inventory beklry · private ek
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Barclay" when you mean: A surname.
- Write "Berkeley" when you mean: A habitational surname from Old English.
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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- "Berkeley" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,887 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: bear · bare. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Barclay, Berkeley" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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