English homophones
boos/booze
"booze" (#12,012 written frequency) beats "boos" (#27,751) in this 2-word /buːz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /buːz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "booze" leads at #12,012, with "boos" trailing at #27,751.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "boo" then splits - "boos" (4 letters) vs "booze" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across boos, booze: bo. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
boos
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory bos · private s
booze
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory beoz · private ez
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "boos" when you mean: plural of boo
- Write "booze" when you mean: Any alcoholic beverage.
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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- "booze" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,012 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: board · bored. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "boos, booze" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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