English homophones
doc/dock
"doc" (#3,875 written frequency) beats "dock" (#7,218) in this 2-word /dɒk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /dɒk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "doc" leads at #3,875, with "dock" trailing at #7,218.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "doc" then splits - "doc" (3 letters) vs "dock" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across doc, dock: cdo. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
doc
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory cdo · no private letters vs siblings
dock
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory cdko · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "doc" when you mean: A doctor.
- Write "dock" when you mean: Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius),…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- dock ← dcok · ddock · docck · dockk · dokc · odck
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (doc, dock). Here's where to go from here.
- "doc" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,875 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: dean · deen. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "doc, dock" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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