English homophones
died/dyed
"died" (#632 written frequency) beats "dyed" (#16,459) in this 2-word /daɪd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /daɪd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "died" leads at #632, with "dyed" trailing at #16,459.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "died" is 4 letters, "dyed" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across died, dyed: de. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
died
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory dei · private i
dyed
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory dey · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "died" when you mean: simple past and past participle of die
- Write "dyed" when you mean: simple past and past participle of dye
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 (died, dyed). Here's where to go from here.
- "died" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #632 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: descent · dissent. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "died, dyed" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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