English homophones
car/carr/ka
"car" (#334 written frequency) beats "ka" (#9,201) in this 3-word /kɑː/ cluster. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /kɑː/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "car" leads at #334, with "ka" trailing at #9,201.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "car" then splits - "car" (3 letters) vs "carr" (4).
- No shared spelling stem: "car" is 3 letters, "ka" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "carr" is 4 letters, "ka" is 2; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across car, carr, ka: a. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
car
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory acr · private cr
carr
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory acr · private cr
ka
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory ak · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "car" when you mean: A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal…
- Write "carr" when you mean: Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
- Write "ka" when you mean: A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- carr ← acrr · ccarr · crar
Each spelling
noun · /kɑː/ · #334 frequency
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.
noun · /kɑː/ · #9,201 frequency
A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 3-spelling cluster (car, carr, ka). Here's where to go from here.
- "car" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #334 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 3 spellings ranks #30 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 3-spelling cluster: shoe · chou · shoo. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "car, carr, ka" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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