English homophones
horseman/horsemen
"horsemen" (#22,114 written frequency) beats "horseman" (#26,464) in this 2-word /ˈhɔɹsmən/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈhɔɹsmən/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "horsemen" leads at #22,114, with "horseman" trailing at #26,464.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "horsem" then splits - "horseman" (8 letters) vs "horsemen" (8).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across horseman, horsemen: ehmnors. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
horseman
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVCVC
Inventory aehmnors · private a
horsemen
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVCVC
Inventory ehmnors · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "horseman" when you mean: A man who rides a horse.
- Write "horsemen" when you mean: plural of horseman
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
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- "horsemen" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #22,114 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: Hess · Hesse. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "horseman, horsemen" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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