English homophones
fat/phat
"fat" (#1,482 written frequency) beats "phat" (#37,626) in this 2-word /ˈfæt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈfæt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "fat" leads at #1,482, with "phat" trailing at #37,626.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "fat" is 3 letters, "phat" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across fat, phat: at. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
fat
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory aft · private f
phat
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory ahpt · private hp
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "fat" when you mean: Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Write "phat" when you mean: Excellent; cool; very good.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- phat ← hpat · phatt · phhat · phta · pphat
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (fat, phat). Here's where to go from here.
- "fat" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,482 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: flow · Flo. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "fat, phat" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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