English homophones
inns/ins
"ins" (#8,050 written frequency) beats "inns" (#26,838) in this 2-word /ɪnz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɪnz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "ins" leads at #8,050, with "inns" trailing at #26,838.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "in" then splits - "inns" (4 letters) vs "ins" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across inns, ins: ins. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
inns
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape VCCC
Inventory ins · no private letters vs siblings
ins
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape VCC
Inventory ins · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "inns" when you mean: plural of inn
- Write "ins" when you mean: plural of in
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- inns ← innss · insn · nins
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (inns, ins). Here's where to go from here.
- "ins" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #8,050 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: it's · its. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "inns, ins" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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