English homophones

aisle/I'll/isle

"isle" (#9,198 written frequency) beats "aisle" (#10,804) in this 3-word /aɪ̯l/ cluster. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage 2026-09-03

Frequency splits the cluster

These 3 spellings keep the same /aɪ̯l/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "isle" leads at #9,198, with "aisle" trailing at #10,804.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

No shared spelling stem: "aisle" is 5 letters, "I'll" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "aisle" is 5 letters, "isle" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "I'll" is 4 letters, "isle" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across aisle, I'll, isle: il. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

aisle
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCCV
Inventory aeils · private aes
I'll
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape VCC
Inventory il · no private letters vs siblings
isle
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCV
Inventory eils · private es

Pick the spelling from the meaning

Write "aisle" when you mean: A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
Write "I'll" when you mean: I will.
Write "isle" when you mean: An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

aisle ← ailse · aisel · aislle · aissle · asile · iasle
isle ← ilse · isel · islle · issle · sile

Each spelling

aisle

noun · /aɪ̯l/ · #10,804 frequency

A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.

I'll

/aɪ̯l/

I will.

isle

noun · /aɪ̯l/ · #9,198 frequency

An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

Nearby English homophone groups

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"isle" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #9,198 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
Each spelling in "aisle, I'll, isle" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry

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