English homophones
each/ich
"each" is a determiner; "ich" is a pronoun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "each" arrives as a determiner, while "ich" is a pronoun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "each" is 4 letters, "ich" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across each, ich: ch. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
each
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVCC
Inventory aceh · private ae
ich
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape VCC
Inventory chi · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "each" when you mean: All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
- Write "ich" when you mean: I.
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 ← aech · eacch · eachh · eahc · ecah
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (each, ich). Here's where to go from here.
- "each" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #191 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: Emmanuel · Immanuel. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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