English homophones
healed/heeled
"healed" (#11,896 written frequency) beats "heeled" (#33,270) in this 2-word /hiːld/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /hiːld/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "healed" leads at #11,896, with "heeled" trailing at #33,270.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "he" then splits - "healed" (6 letters) vs "heeled" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across healed, heeled: dehl. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
healed
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory adehl · private a
heeled
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory dehl · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "healed" when you mean: simple past and past participle of heal
- Write "heeled" when you mean: simple past and past participle of heel
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 (healed, heeled). Here's where to go from here.
- "healed" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #11,896 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 "healed, heeled" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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