English homophones
brodie/brody
"brody" (#18,774 written frequency) beats "brodie" (#21,737) in this 2-word /bɹoʊdi/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /bɹoʊdi/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "brody" leads at #18,774, with "brodie" trailing at #21,737.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "brod" then splits - "brodie" (6 letters) vs "brody" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across brodie, brody: bdor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
brodie
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCVV
Inventory bdeior · private ei
brody
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCV
Inventory bdory · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "brodie" when you mean: A close male friend, or a man deserving of respect; a bro.
- Write "brody" when you mean: Intentionally spinning in circles and sliding in an automobile.
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 (brodie, brody). Here's where to go from here.
- "brody" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #18,774 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: blonde · blond. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "brodie, brody" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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