English homophones
coming/cumming
"coming" (#383 written frequency) beats "cumming" (#22,051) in this 2-word /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "coming" leads at #383, with "cumming" trailing at #22,051.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "coming" is 6 letters, "cumming" is 7; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across coming, cumming: cgimn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
coming
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVCC
Inventory cgimno · private o
cumming
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVCC
Inventory cgimnu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "coming" when you mean: present participle and gerund of come
- Write "cumming" when you mean: present participle and gerund 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 (coming, cumming). Here's where to go from here.
- "coming" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #383 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 "coming, cumming" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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