English homophones
beach/beech
"beach" (#1,263 written frequency) beats "beech" (#20,296) in this 2-word /biːt͡ʃ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /biːt͡ʃ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "beach" leads at #1,263, with "beech" trailing at #20,296.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "be" then splits - "beach" (5 letters) vs "beech" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across beach, beech: bceh. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
beach
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory abceh · private a
beech
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory bceh · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "beach" when you mean: The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- Write "beech" when you mean: A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
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 (beach, beech). Here's where to go from here.
- "beach" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,263 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: bore · boar. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "beach, beech" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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