English homophones
caddie/caddy
"caddy" (#30,351 written frequency) beats "caddie" (#46,964) in this 2-word /ˈkædi/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkædi/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "caddy" leads at #30,351, with "caddie" trailing at #46,964.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "cadd" then splits - "caddie" (6 letters) vs "caddy" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across caddie, caddy: acd. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
caddie
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV
Inventory acdei · private ei
caddy
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory acdy · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "caddie" when you mean: Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).
- Write "caddy" when you mean: A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
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 (caddie, caddy). Here's where to go from here.
- "caddy" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #30,351 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: serial · cereal. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "caddie, caddy" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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