English homophones
Graeme/graham
"Graeme" is a name; "graham" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Graeme" arrives as a name, while "graham" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "gra" then splits - "Graeme" (6 letters) vs "graham" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Graeme, graham: agmr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Graeme
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVVCV
Inventory aegmr · private e
graham
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC
Inventory aghmr · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Graeme" when you mean: A surname from Old English, a less common spelling of Graham.
- Write "graham" when you mean: Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran.
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 (Graeme, graham). Here's where to go from here.
- "graham" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,306 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: gains · Gaines. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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