English homophones

Lavigne/Levine

"Levine" (#15,852 written frequency) beats "Lavigne" (#41,223) in this 2-word /ləˈvin/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ləˈvin/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Levine" leads at #15,852, with "Lavigne" trailing at #41,223.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "Lavigne" is 7 letters, "Levine" is 6; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across Lavigne, Levine: eilnv. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • Lavigne

    7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVCCV

    Inventory aegilnv · private ag

  • Levine

    6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVCV

    Inventory eilnv · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Lavigne" when you mean: A surname from Old French.
  • Write "Levine" when you mean: A surname from Hebrew.

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Lavignealvigne · laivgne · lavgine · lavigen · laviggne · lavignne
  • Levineelvine · leivne · levien · levinne · levnie · levvine

Each spelling

Lavigne

name · /ləˈvin/ · #41,223 frequency

A surname from Old French.

Levine

name · /ləˈviːn/ · #15,852 frequency

A surname from Hebrew.

Nearby English homophone groups

What to do next

You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (Lavigne, Levine). Here's where to go from here.

  • "Levine" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #15,852 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: lock · Locke. Nearby cluster
  • Each spelling in "Lavigne, Levine" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list