English homophones
draft/draught
"draft" (#2,438 written frequency) beats "draught" (#26,069) in this 2-word /dɹɑːft/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /dɹɑːft/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "draft" leads at #2,438, with "draught" trailing at #26,069.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "dra" then splits - "draft" (5 letters) vs "draught" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across draft, draught: adrt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
draft
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory adfrt · private f
draught
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVCCC
Inventory adghrtu · private ghu
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "draft" when you mean: A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- Write "draught" when you mean: Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
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
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- "draft" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,438 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 "draft, draught" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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