English homophones
cellar/seller
"seller" (#7,057 written frequency) beats "cellar" (#12,935) in this 2-word /ˈsɛlə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈsɛlə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "seller" leads at #7,057, with "cellar" trailing at #12,935.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "cellar" is 6 letters, "seller" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cellar, seller: elr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cellar
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory acelr · private ac
seller
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory elrs · private s
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cellar" when you mean: An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
- Write "seller" when you mean: Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
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 (cellar, seller). Here's where to go from here.
- "seller" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,057 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: coal · cole. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "cellar, seller" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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