English homophones
countryman/countrymen
"countrymen" (#21,479 written frequency) beats "countryman" (#32,745) in this 2-word /ˈkʌntɹimən/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkʌntɹimən/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "countrymen" leads at #21,479, with "countryman" trailing at #32,745.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "countrym" then splits - "countryman" (10 letters) vs "countrymen" (10).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across countryman, countrymen: cmnortuy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
countryman
10 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVVCCCVCVC
Inventory acmnortuy · private a
countrymen
10 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVVCCCVCVC
Inventory cemnortuy · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "countryman" when you mean: Somebody from a certain country.
- Write "countrymen" when you mean: plural of countryman
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- countryman ← ccountryman · conutryman · counntryman · counrtyman · countrmyan · countrryman
- countrymen ← ccountrymen · conutrymen · counntrymen · counrtymen · countrmyen · countrrymen
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
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- "countrymen" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #21,479 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: callous · callus. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "countryman, countrymen" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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