English homophones
find/fined
"find" (#169 written frequency) beats "fined" (#11,211) in this 2-word /faɪnd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /faɪnd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "find" leads at #169, with "fined" trailing at #11,211.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "fin" then splits - "find" (4 letters) vs "fined" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across find, fined: dfin. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
find
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory dfin · no private letters vs siblings
fined
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory defin · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "find" when you mean: To locate
- Write "fined" when you mean: simple past and past participle of fine
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 (find, fined). Here's where to go from here.
- "find" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #169 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: Frida · Frieda. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "find, fined" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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