English homophones
crossing/xing
"crossing" (#4,073 written frequency) beats "xing" (#40,525) in this 2-word /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkɹɒsɪŋ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "crossing" leads at #4,073, with "xing" trailing at #40,525.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "crossing" is 8 letters, "xing" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across crossing, xing: gin. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
crossing
8 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCVCC
Inventory cginors · private cors
xing
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ginx · private x
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "crossing" when you mean: Cross-breeding.
- Write "xing" when you mean: Abbreviation of crossing or pedestrian crossing.
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 (crossing, xing). Here's where to go from here.
- "crossing" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,073 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: Columbia · Colombia. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "crossing, xing" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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