English homophones
Dawes/doors
"Dawes" is a name; "doors" 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: "Dawes" arrives as a name, while "doors" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Dawes" is 5 letters, "doors" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Dawes, doors: ds. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Dawes
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory adesw · private aew
doors
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory dors · private or
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Dawes" when you mean: A surname originating as a patronymic.
- Write "doors" when you mean: plural of door
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 (Dawes, doors). Here's where to go from here.
- "doors" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,786 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: Darryl · Darrell. 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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