English homophones
lb/pound
"pound" (#4,180 written frequency) beats "lb" (#7,936) in this 2-word /paʊnd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /paʊnd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "pound" leads at #4,180, with "lb" trailing at #7,936.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "lb" is 2 letters, "pound" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across lb, pound: none. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
lb
2 letters · 0 vowels · shape CC
Inventory bl · private bl
pound
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory dnopu · private dnopu
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "lb" when you mean: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”).
- Write "pound" when you mean: A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- pound ← opund · ponud · poudn · poundd · pounnd · ppound
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (lb, pound). Here's where to go from here.
- "pound" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,180 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: Leighton · Leyton. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "lb, pound" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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