English homophones
boarder/border
"border" (#2,030 written frequency) beats "boarder" (#40,152) in this 2-word /ˈbɔədə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈbɔədə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "border" leads at #2,030, with "boarder" trailing at #40,152.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "bo" then splits - "boarder" (7 letters) vs "border" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across boarder, border: bdeor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
boarder
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCVC
Inventory abdeor · private a
border
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory bdeor · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "boarder" when you mean: A pupil who lives at school during term time.
- Write "border" when you mean: The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
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 (boarder, border). Here's where to go from here.
- "border" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,030 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: bein · bene. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "boarder, border" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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