English homophones
doctor's/doctors
2 "doctor's, doctors" spellings share pronunciation /ˈdɑktɚz/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Meaning separates the spellings
doctor's, doctors are held together only by pronunciation /ˈdɑktɚz/. With no grammar or frequency gap large enough to tip the choice, read each definition before you commit a spelling.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "doctor" then splits - "doctor's" (8 letters) vs "doctors" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across doctor's, doctors: cdorst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
doctor's
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVCC
Inventory cdorst · no private letters vs siblings
doctors
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVCC
Inventory cdorst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "doctor's" when you mean: A doctor’s surgery.
- Write "doctors" when you mean: plural of doctor
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- doctors ← dcotors · ddoctors · docctors · docotrs · doctorrs · doctorss
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (doctor's, doctors). Here's where to go from here.
- "doctors" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,728 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
- Each spelling in "doctor's, doctors" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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