English homophones
beats/beets
"beats" (#4,919 written frequency) beats "beets" (#26,341) in this 2-word /biːts/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /biːts/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "beats" leads at #4,919, with "beets" trailing at #26,341.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "be" then splits - "beats" (5 letters) vs "beets" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across beats, beets: best. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
beats
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory abest · private a
beets
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory best · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "beats" when you mean: plural of beat
- Write "beets" when you mean: plural of beet
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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- "beats" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,919 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: band · banned. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "beats, beets" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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