English homophones
Bastian/bastion
"Bastian" is a name; "bastion" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Bastian" arrives as a name, while "bastion" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "basti" then splits - "Bastian" (7 letters) vs "bastion" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Bastian, bastion: abinst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Bastian
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC
Inventory abinst · no private letters vs siblings
bastion
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC
Inventory abinost · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Bastian" when you mean: A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian, from Ancient Greek.
- Write "bastion" when you mean: A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
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 (Bastian, bastion). Here's where to go from here.
- "bastion" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #19,269 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: blonde · blond. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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