English homophones
bites/bytes
"bites" (#9,708 written frequency) beats "bytes" (#20,578) in this 2-word /baɪts/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /baɪts/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "bites" leads at #9,708, with "bytes" trailing at #20,578.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "bites" is 5 letters, "bytes" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across bites, bytes: best. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
bites
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory beist · private i
bytes
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory besty · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "bites" when you mean: plural of bite
- Write "bytes" when you mean: plural of byte
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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- "bites" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #9,708 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: boon · Boone. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "bites, bytes" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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