English homophones
hippie/hippy
"hippie" (#18,100 written frequency) beats "hippy" (#28,950) in this 2-word /ˈhɪpi/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈhɪpi/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "hippie" leads at #18,100, with "hippy" trailing at #28,950.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "hipp" then splits - "hippie" (6 letters) vs "hippy" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hippie, hippy: hip. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hippie
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV
Inventory ehip · private e
hippy
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory hipy · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hippie" when you mean: A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- Write "hippy" when you mean: Alternative spelling of hippie.
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 (hippie, hippy). Here's where to go from here.
- "hippie" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #18,100 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: Hawthorne · hawthorn. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "hippie, hippy" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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