English homophones
holm/home
"home" (#149 written frequency) beats "holm" (#34,526) in this 2-word /həʊm/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /həʊm/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "home" leads at #149, with "holm" trailing at #34,526.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ho" then splits - "holm" (4 letters) vs "home" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across holm, home: hmo. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
holm
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory hlmo · private l
home
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory ehmo · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "holm" when you mean: Small island, islet.
- Write "home" when you mean: A dwelling.
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 (holm, home). Here's where to go from here.
- "home" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #149 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: hide · Hyde. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "holm, home" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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