English homophones

calmer/kama

"calmer" (#27,082 written frequency) beats "kama" (#38,459) in this 2-word /ˈkɑːmə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkɑːmə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "calmer" leads at #27,082, with "kama" trailing at #38,459.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "calmer" is 6 letters, "kama" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across calmer, kama: am. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • calmer

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory acelmr · private celr

  • kama

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory akm · private k

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "calmer" when you mean: A person or thing that calms.
  • Write "kama" when you mean: A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • calmeraclmer · calemr · callmer · calmerr · calmmer · calmre
  • kamaakma · kaam · kamma · kkama · kmaa

Each spelling

calmer

noun · /ˈkɑːmə/ · #27,082 frequency

A person or thing that calms.

kama

noun · /kɑmə/ · #38,459 frequency

A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

Nearby English homophone groups

What to do next

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  • "calmer" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #27,082 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 "calmer, kama" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list