English homophones
grays/graze
"graze" (#28,225 written frequency) beats "grays" (#35,740) in this 2-word /ɡɹeɪz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɡɹeɪz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "graze" leads at #28,225, with "grays" trailing at #35,740.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "gra" then splits - "grays" (5 letters) vs "graze" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across grays, graze: agr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
grays
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVC
Inventory agrsy · private sy
graze
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCV
Inventory aegrz · private ez
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "grays" when you mean: plural of gray
- Write "graze" when you mean: The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
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 (grays, graze). Here's where to go from here.
- "graze" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #28,225 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 "grays, graze" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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