English homophones
gare/ger
"ger" (#25,772 written frequency) beats "gare" (#47,641) in this 2-word /ɡɛə(ɹ)/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɡɛə(ɹ)/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "ger" leads at #25,772, with "gare" trailing at #47,641.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "gare" is 4 letters, "ger" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across gare, ger: egr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
gare
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aegr · private a
ger
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory egr · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "gare" when you mean: Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.
- Write "ger" when you mean: A yurt.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- gare ← garre · ggare · grae
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (gare, ger). Here's where to go from here.
- "ger" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #25,772 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: great · grate. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "gare, ger" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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