English homophones
gods/guards
"gods" (#3,626 written frequency) beats "guards" (#4,160) in this 2-word /ɡɑdz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɡɑdz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "gods" leads at #3,626, with "guards" trailing at #4,160.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "gods" is 4 letters, "guards" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across gods, guards: dgs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
gods
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory dgos · private o
guards
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCCC
Inventory adgrsu · private aru
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "gods" when you mean: plural of god
- Write "guards" when you mean: plural of guard
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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- "gods" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,626 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: grey · gray. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "gods, guards" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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