English homophones
fueled/fuelled
"fueled" (#13,519 written frequency) beats "fuelled" (#27,155) in this 2-word /ˈfjuː.əld/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈfjuː.əld/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "fueled" leads at #13,519, with "fuelled" trailing at #27,155.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "fuel" then splits - "fueled" (6 letters) vs "fuelled" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across fueled, fuelled: deflu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
fueled
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory deflu · no private letters vs siblings
fuelled
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCVC
Inventory deflu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "fueled" when you mean: simple past and past participle of fuel
- Write "fuelled" when you mean: simple past and past participle of fuel
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
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- "fueled" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #13,519 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: fair · fare. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "fueled, fuelled" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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