English homophones
drier/dryer
"dryer" (#14,111 written frequency) beats "drier" (#22,652) in this 2-word /ˈdɹaɪɚ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈdɹaɪɚ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "dryer" leads at #14,111, with "drier" trailing at #22,652.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "dr" then splits - "drier" (5 letters) vs "dryer" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across drier, dryer: der. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
drier
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVC
Inventory deir · private i
dryer
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVC
Inventory dery · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "drier" when you mean: Alternative spelling of dryer.
- Write "dryer" when you mean: One who, or that which, dries; any device or facility employed to remove water or humidity, e.g. a desiccative
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 (drier, dryer). Here's where to go from here.
- "dryer" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #14,111 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: damn · dam. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "drier, dryer" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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