English homophones
bis/buys
"buys" (#7,892 written frequency) beats "bis" (#18,497) in this 2-word /baɪz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /baɪz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "buys" leads at #7,892, with "bis" trailing at #18,497.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "bis" is 3 letters, "buys" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across bis, buys: bs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
bis
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory bis · private i
buys
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory bsuy · private uy
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "bis" when you mean: plural of bi
- Write "buys" when you mean: plural of buy
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- buys ← bbuys · buyss · buyys · byus · ubys
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (bis, buys). Here's where to go from here.
- "buys" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,892 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: bear · bare. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "bis, buys" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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