English homophones
cause/cores
"cause" (#441 written frequency) beats "cores" (#14,499) in this 2-word /kɔːz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /kɔːz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "cause" leads at #441, with "cores" trailing at #14,499.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "cause" is 5 letters, "cores" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cause, cores: ces. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cause
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory acesu · private au
cores
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory ceors · private or
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cause" when you mean: The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
- Write "cores" when you mean: plural of core
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 (cause, cores). Here's where to go from here.
- "cause" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #441 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: clause · claws. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "cause, cores" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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