English homophones
beaut/butte
"butte" (#25,693 written frequency) beats "beaut" (#49,206) in this 2-word /bjuːt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /bjuːt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "butte" leads at #25,693, with "beaut" trailing at #49,206.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "beaut" is 5 letters, "butte" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across beaut, butte: betu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
beaut
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVVC
Inventory abetu · private a
butte
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory betu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "beaut" when you mean: Something or someone that is physically attractive.
- Write "butte" when you mean: An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
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 (beaut, butte). Here's where to go from here.
- "butte" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #25,693 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: bait · bate. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "beaut, butte" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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