English homophones
disc/disk
"disc" (#5,782 written frequency) beats "disk" (#7,008) in this 2-word /dɪsk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /dɪsk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "disc" leads at #5,782, with "disk" trailing at #7,008.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "disc" keeps c, "disk" writes k at letter 4.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across disc, disk: dis. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
disc
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory cdis · private c
disk
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory diks · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "disc" when you mean: A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- Write "disk" when you mean: A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
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 (disc, disk). Here's where to go from here.
- "disc" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #5,782 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: die · dye. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "disc, disk" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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