English homophones
beat/beet
"beat" (#1,042 written frequency) beats "beet" (#27,068) in this 2-word /biːt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /biːt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "beat" leads at #1,042, with "beet" trailing at #27,068.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "be" then splits - "beat" (4 letters) vs "beet" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across beat, beet: bet. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
beat
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory abet · private a
beet
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory bet · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "beat" when you mean: A stroke; a blow.
- Write "beet" when you mean: Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
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 (beat, beet). Here's where to go from here.
- "beat" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,042 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: build · billed. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "beat, beet" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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