English homophones
cop/Kop
"cop" is a verb; "Kop" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "cop" arrives as a verb, while "Kop" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "cop" is 3 letters, "Kop" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cop, Kop: op. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cop
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory cop · private c
Kop
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory kop · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cop" when you mean: to capture or arrest someone
- Write "Kop" when you mean: A terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs sinc…
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (cop, Kop). Here's where to go from here.
- "cop" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,804 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: cox · cocks. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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