English homophones
hog/hogg
"hog" (#13,532 written frequency) beats "hogg" (#23,862) in this 2-word /hɒɡ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /hɒɡ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "hog" leads at #13,532, with "hogg" trailing at #23,862.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "hog" then splits - "hog" (3 letters) vs "hogg" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hog, hogg: gho. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hog
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory gho · no private letters vs siblings
hogg
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory gho · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hog" when you mean: Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- Write "hogg" when you mean: A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- hogg ← hgog · hhogg · ohgg
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (hog, hogg). Here's where to go from here.
- "hog" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #13,532 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: high · hi. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "hog, hogg" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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