English homophones
chased/chaste
"chased" (#10,510 written frequency) beats "chaste" (#36,921) in this 2-word /t͡ʃeɪst/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /t͡ʃeɪst/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "chased" leads at #10,510, with "chaste" trailing at #36,921.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "chas" then splits - "chased" (6 letters) vs "chaste" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across chased, chaste: acehs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
chased
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC
Inventory acdehs · private d
chaste
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCV
Inventory acehst · private t
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "chased" when you mean: Pursued.
- Write "chaste" when you mean: Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly
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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- "chased" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #10,510 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: cam · cham. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "chased, chaste" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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