English homophones
eyed/I'd/ide
"eyed" is an adjective; "ide" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "eyed" arrives as an adjective, while "ide" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "eyed" is 4 letters, "I'd" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "eyed" is 4 letters, "ide" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "I'd" is 3 letters, "ide" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across eyed, I'd, ide: d. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
eyed
4 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVVC
Inventory dey · private ey
I'd
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape VC
Inventory di · private i
ide
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory dei · private ei
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "eyed" when you mean: Having eyes.
- Write "I'd" when you mean: Contraction of I + had.
- Write "ide" when you mean: A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- eyed ← eeyd · eyde · eyedd · eyyed · yeed
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 3-spelling cluster (eyed, I'd, ide). Here's where to go from here.
- "eyed" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #7,562 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 3 spellings ranks #30 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 3-spelling cluster: he'll · heal · heel. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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