English homophones
lbs/pounds
"pounds" (#2,849 written frequency) beats "lbs" (#6,489) in this 2-word /paʊndz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /paʊndz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "pounds" leads at #2,849, with "lbs" trailing at #6,489.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "lbs" is 3 letters, "pounds" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across lbs, pounds: s. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
lbs
3 letters · 0 vowels · shape CCC
Inventory bls · private bl
pounds
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCCC
Inventory dnopsu · private dnopu
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "lbs" when you mean: plural of lb; pounds
- Write "pounds" when you mean: plural of pound
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- pounds ← opunds · ponuds · poudns · poundds · poundss · pounnds
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (lbs, pounds). Here's where to go from here.
- "pounds" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,849 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: lai · lye. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "lbs, pounds" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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