English homophones
Christmas/Xmas
"Christmas" (#1,297 written frequency) beats "Xmas" (#21,118) in this 2-word /ˈkɹɪsməs/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkɹɪsməs/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Christmas" leads at #1,297, with "Xmas" trailing at #21,118.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Christmas" is 9 letters, "Xmas" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Christmas, Xmas: ams. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Christmas
9 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCCVCCCVC
Inventory achimrst · private chirt
Xmas
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory amsx · private x
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Christmas" when you mean: A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular cust…
- Write "Xmas" when you mean: Abbreviation of Christmas.
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
name · /ˈkɹɪsməs/ · #1,297 frequency
A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (Christmas, Xmas). Here's where to go from here.
- "Christmas" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,297 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: cause · cores. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Christmas, Xmas" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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