English homophones

Caspar/Casper

"Casper" (#22,313 written frequency) beats "Caspar" (#34,423) in this 2-word /ˈkæspɚ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkæspɚ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Casper" leads at #22,313, with "Caspar" trailing at #34,423.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "casp" then splits - "Caspar" (6 letters) vs "Casper" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • Caspar

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory acprs · no private letters vs siblings

  • Casper

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory aceprs · private e

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Caspar" when you mean: one of the Magi.
  • Write "Casper" when you mean: A male given name from Old Persian, of occasional usage, variant of Caspar.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Casparacspar · capsar · casapr · casparr · casppar · caspra
  • Casperacsper · capser · casepr · casperr · caspper · caspre

Each spelling

Caspar

name · /ˈkæspɚ/ · #34,423 frequency

one of the Magi.

Casper

name · /ˈkæspɚ/ · #22,313 frequency

A male given name from Old Persian, of occasional usage, variant of Caspar.

Nearby English homophone groups

What to do next

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

  • "Casper" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #22,313 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: callous · callus. Nearby cluster
  • Each spelling in "Caspar, Casper" 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