English homophones
genes/jeans
"genes" (#5,684 written frequency) beats "jeans" (#6,154) in this 2-word /d͡ʒiːnz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /d͡ʒiːnz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "genes" leads at #5,684, with "jeans" trailing at #6,154.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "genes" is 5 letters, "jeans" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across genes, jeans: ens. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
genes
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory egns · private g
jeans
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory aejns · private aj
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "genes" when you mean: plural of gene
- Write "jeans" when you mean: A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
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 (genes, jeans). Here's where to go from here.
- "genes" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #5,684 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: guest · guessed. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "genes, jeans" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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