English homophones
Blyth/Blythe
"Blythe" (#35,635 written frequency) beats "Blyth" (#45,237) in this 2-word /blaɪð/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /blaɪð/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Blythe" leads at #35,635, with "Blyth" trailing at #45,237.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "blyth" then splits - "Blyth" (5 letters) vs "Blythe" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Blyth, Blythe: bhlty. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Blyth
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory bhlty · no private letters vs siblings
Blythe
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCV
Inventory behlty · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Blyth" when you mean: A town and civil parish with a town council in south-east Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ3181).
- Write "Blythe" when you mean: Any of a number of places in England and the United States.
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 (Blyth, Blythe). Here's where to go from here.
- "Blythe" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #35,635 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: brag · Bragg. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Blyth, Blythe" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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