English homophones
brag/Bragg
"brag" is a noun; "Bragg" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "brag" arrives as a noun, while "Bragg" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "brag" then splits - "brag" (4 letters) vs "Bragg" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across brag, Bragg: abgr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
brag
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory abgr · no private letters vs siblings
Bragg
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory abgr · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "brag" when you mean: A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
- Write "Bragg" when you mean: A surname.
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 (brag, Bragg). Here's where to go from here.
- "brag" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #15,115 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: but · butt. 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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