English homophones
eager/Iga
"eager" is an adjective; "Iga" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "eager" arrives as an adjective, while "Iga" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "eager" is 5 letters, "Iga" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across eager, Iga: ag. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
eager
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCVC
Inventory aegr · private er
Iga
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory agi · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "eager" when you mean: Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
- Write "Iga" when you mean: An ancient province of Japan, in modern Mie Prefecture.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- eager ← aeger · eaegr · eagerr · eagger · eagre · egaer
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (eager, Iga). Here's where to go from here.
- "eager" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #6,781 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: Elie · ele. 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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