English homophones
ceding/seeding
"seeding" (#22,211 written frequency) beats "ceding" (#48,128) in this 2-word /ˈsiːdɪŋ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈsiːdɪŋ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "seeding" leads at #22,211, with "ceding" trailing at #48,128.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "ceding" is 6 letters, "seeding" is 7; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across ceding, seeding: degin. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
ceding
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVCC
Inventory cdegin · private c
seeding
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVCC
Inventory degins · private s
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "ceding" when you mean: present participle and gerund of cede
- Write "seeding" when you mean: present participle and gerund of seed
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
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- "seeding" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #22,211 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 "ceding, seeding" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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