English homophones
clamor/clamour
"clamor" (#45,845 written frequency) beats "clamour" (#46,982) in this 2-word /ˈklæm.ə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈklæm.ə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "clamor" leads at #45,845, with "clamour" trailing at #46,982.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "clamo" then splits - "clamor" (6 letters) vs "clamour" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across clamor, clamour: aclmor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
clamor
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC
Inventory aclmor · no private letters vs siblings
clamour
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCVVC
Inventory aclmoru · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "clamor" when you mean: A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
- Write "clamour" when you mean: British and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
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 (clamor, clamour). Here's where to go from here.
- "clamor" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #45,845 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: cocoa · coco. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "clamor, clamour" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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