English homophones
bus/buss
"bus" (#1,554 written frequency) beats "buss" (#35,640) in this 2-word /bʌs/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /bʌs/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "bus" leads at #1,554, with "buss" trailing at #35,640.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "bus" then splits - "bus" (3 letters) vs "buss" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across bus, buss: bsu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
bus
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory bsu · no private letters vs siblings
buss
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory bsu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "bus" when you mean: A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
- Write "buss" when you mean: A kiss.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- buss ← bbuss · bsus · ubss
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (bus, buss). Here's where to go from here.
- "bus" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,554 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: Berkeley · Barclay. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "bus, buss" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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