English homophones
love/luv
"love" (#147 written frequency) beats "luv" (#25,830) in this 2-word /lʌv/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /lʌv/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "love" leads at #147, with "luv" trailing at #25,830.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "love" is 4 letters, "luv" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across love, luv: lv. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
love
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory elov · private eo
luv
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory luv · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "love" when you mean: A deep caring for the existence of another.
- Write "luv" when you mean: Deliberate misspelling of love.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- love ← llove · loev · lovve · lvoe · olve
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (love, luv). Here's where to go from here.
- "love" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #147 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: low · lo. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "love, luv" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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