English homophones
Blount/blunt
"Blount" is a name; "blunt" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Blount" arrives as a name, while "blunt" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "bl" then splits - "Blount" (6 letters) vs "blunt" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Blount, blunt: blntu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Blount
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVCC
Inventory blnotu · private o
blunt
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory blntu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Blount" when you mean: A surname.
- Write "blunt" when you mean: Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
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 (Blount, blunt). Here's where to go from here.
- "blunt" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #8,245 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
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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