English homophones
laud/lord
"lord" (#832 written frequency) beats "laud" (#47,152) in this 2-word /lɔːd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /lɔːd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "lord" leads at #832, with "laud" trailing at #47,152.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "laud" is 4 letters, "lord" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across laud, lord: dl. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
laud
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory adlu · private au
lord
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory dlor · private or
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "laud" when you mean: Glorification or praise.
- Write "lord" when you mean: The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
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
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (laud, lord). Here's where to go from here.
- "lord" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #832 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: Laura · Lara. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "laud, lord" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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