English homophones
Hague/Haig
"Hague" (#12,060 written frequency) beats "Haig" (#36,168) in this 2-word /heɪɡ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /heɪɡ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Hague" leads at #12,060, with "Haig" trailing at #36,168.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ha" then splits - "Hague" (5 letters) vs "Haig" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Hague, Haig: agh. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Hague
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV
Inventory aeghu · private eu
Haig
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory aghi · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Hague" when you mean: A surname.
- Write "Haig" when you mean: A surname from Old Norse.
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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- "Hague" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,060 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: hmm · hmmm. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Hague, Haig" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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