English homophones
cocks/cox
"cox" (#7,783 written frequency) beats "cocks" (#15,780) in this 2-word /kɒks/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /kɒks/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "cox" leads at #7,783, with "cocks" trailing at #15,780.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "co" then splits - "cocks" (5 letters) vs "cox" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cocks, cox: co. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cocks
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory ckos · private ks
cox
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory cox · private x
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cocks" when you mean: plural of cock
- Write "cox" when you mean: A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- cocks ← ccocks · ccoks · coccks · cockks · cockss · cocsk
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (cocks, cox). Here's where to go from here.
- "cox" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,783 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: court · caught. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "cocks, cox" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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