English homophones
installment/instalment
"installment" (#13,369 written frequency) beats "instalment" (#27,513) in this 2-word /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "installment" leads at #13,369, with "instalment" trailing at #27,513.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "instal" then splits - "installment" (11 letters) vs "instalment" (10).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across installment, instalment: aeilmnst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
installment
11 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCCVCCCVCC
Inventory aeilmnst · no private letters vs siblings
instalment
10 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCCVCCVCC
Inventory aeilmnst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "installment" when you mean: One of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part pre…
- Write "instalment" when you mean: Australia, British, and Canada standard spelling of installment.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- installment ← innstallment · insatllment · insstallment · installemnt · installmennt · installmentt
- instalment ← innstalment · insatlment · insstalment · instalemnt · instalmennt · instalmentt
Each spelling
noun · /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ · #13,369 frequency
One of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part presents or is presented at a particular scheduled interval.
noun · /ɪnˈstɔːlmənt/ · #27,513 frequency
Australia, British, and Canada standard spelling of installment.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (installment, instalment). Here's where to go from here.
- "installment" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #13,369 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 "installment, instalment" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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