English homophones
hall/haul
"hall" is a noun; "haul" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "hall" arrives as a noun, while "haul" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ha" then splits - "hall" (4 letters) vs "haul" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hall, haul: ahl. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hall
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ahl · no private letters vs siblings
haul
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ahlu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hall" when you mean: A corridor; a hallway.
- Write "haul" when you mean: To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
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 (hall, haul). Here's where to go from here.
- "hall" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,427 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: hurst · Hearst. 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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