English homophones
MacKinnon/McKinnon
"McKinnon" (#29,372 written frequency) beats "MacKinnon" (#34,972) in this 2-word /məˈkɪnən/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /məˈkɪnən/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "McKinnon" leads at #29,372, with "MacKinnon" trailing at #34,972.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "MacKinnon" is 9 letters, "McKinnon" is 8; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across MacKinnon, McKinnon: cikmno. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
MacKinnon
9 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVCCVC
Inventory acikmno · private a
McKinnon
8 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCCVCCVC
Inventory cikmno · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "MacKinnon" when you mean: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- Write "McKinnon" 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.
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What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (MacKinnon, McKinnon). Here's where to go from here.
- "McKinnon" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #29,372 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: marquee · Markey. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "MacKinnon, McKinnon" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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