English homophones
breaches/breeches
"breaches" (#18,257 written frequency) beats "breeches" (#43,066) in this 2-word /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "breaches" leads at #18,257, with "breeches" trailing at #43,066.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "bre" then splits - "breaches" (8 letters) vs "breeches" (8).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across breaches, breeches: bcehrs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
breaches
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVVCCVC
Inventory abcehrs · private a
breeches
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVVCCVC
Inventory bcehrs · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "breaches" when you mean: plural of breach
- Write "breeches" when you mean: plural of breech
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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- "breaches" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #18,257 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: beat · beet. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "breaches, breeches" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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