English homophones
MacIntyre/McIntyre
"McIntyre" (#25,469 written frequency) beats "MacIntyre" (#43,767) in this 2-word /ˈmækɪnˌtaɪə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈmækɪnˌtaɪə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "McIntyre" leads at #25,469, with "MacIntyre" trailing at #43,767.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "MacIntyre" is 9 letters, "McIntyre" is 8; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across MacIntyre, McIntyre: ceimnrty. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
MacIntyre
9 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCVCCVCV
Inventory aceimnrty · private a
McIntyre
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVCV
Inventory ceimnrty · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "MacIntyre" when you mean: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- Write "McIntyre" when you mean: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (MacIntyre, McIntyre). Here's where to go from here.
- "McIntyre" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #25,469 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: medieval · mediaeval. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "MacIntyre, McIntyre" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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