English homophones
lul/lull
"lul" is an intj; "lull" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "lul" arrives as an intj, while "lull" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "lul" then splits - "lul" (3 letters) vs "lull" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across lul, lull: lu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
lul
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory lu · no private letters vs siblings
lull
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory lu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "lul" when you mean: Alternative form of LOL.
- Write "lull" when you mean: A period of rest or soothing.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- lull ← llul · llull · ulll
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (lul, lull). Here's where to go from here.
- "lull" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #26,150 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: pounds · lbs. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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