English homophones

Casey/Kasey

"Casey" (#7,534 written frequency) beats "Kasey" (#44,291) in this 2-word /ˈkeɪsi/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkeɪsi/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Casey" leads at #7,534, with "Kasey" trailing at #44,291.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "Casey" is 5 letters, "Kasey" is 5; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • Casey

    5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV

    Inventory acesy · private c

  • Kasey

    5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV

    Inventory aeksy · private k

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Casey" when you mean: A surname from Irish.
  • Write "Kasey" when you mean: A male given name.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Caseyacsey · caesy · caseyy · cassey · casye · ccasey
  • Kaseyaksey · kaesy · kaseyy · kassey · kasye · kkasey

Each spelling

Casey

name · /ˈkeɪsi/ · #7,534 frequency

A surname from Irish.

Kasey

name · /ˈkeɪsi/ · #44,291 frequency

A male given name.

Nearby English homophone groups

What to do next

You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (Casey, Kasey). Here's where to go from here.

  • "Casey" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,534 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: court · caught. Nearby cluster
  • Each spelling in "Casey, Kasey" 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