English homophones
comes/cums
"comes" (#432 written frequency) beats "cums" (#45,869) in this 2-word /kʌmz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /kʌmz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "comes" leads at #432, with "cums" trailing at #45,869.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "comes" is 5 letters, "cums" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across comes, cums: cms. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
comes
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory cemos · private eo
cums
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory cmsu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "comes" when you mean: third-person singular simple present indicative of come
- Write "cums" when you mean: third-person singular simple present indicative of cum
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 (comes, cums). Here's where to go from here.
- "comes" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #432 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: clause · claws. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "comes, cums" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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