English homophones
Diggs/digs
"Diggs" is a name; "digs" 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: "Diggs" arrives as a name, while "digs" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "dig" then splits - "Diggs" (5 letters) vs "digs" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Diggs, digs: dgis. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Diggs
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory dgis · no private letters vs siblings
digs
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory dgis · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Diggs" when you mean: A surname originating as a patronymic.
- Write "digs" when you mean: plural of dig
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 (Diggs, digs). Here's where to go from here.
- "digs" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #17,590 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: dying · dyeing. 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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