English homophones
flaw/floor
"floor" (#1,221 written frequency) beats "flaw" (#12,978) in this 2-word /flɔː/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /flɔː/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "floor" leads at #1,221, with "flaw" trailing at #12,978.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "fl" then splits - "flaw" (4 letters) vs "floor" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across flaw, floor: fl. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
flaw
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory aflw · private aw
floor
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVC
Inventory flor · private or
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "flaw" when you mean: A flake, fragment, or shiver.
- Write "floor" when you mean: The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
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 (flaw, floor). Here's where to go from here.
- "floor" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,221 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: femme · fem. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "flaw, floor" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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