English homophones
Macleod/McLeod
"Macleod" (#22,146 written frequency) beats "McLeod" (#23,900) in this 2-word /məˈklaʊd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /məˈklaʊd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Macleod" leads at #22,146, with "McLeod" trailing at #23,900.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Macleod" is 7 letters, "McLeod" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Macleod, McLeod: cdelmo. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Macleod
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC
Inventory acdelmo · private a
McLeod
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCCVVC
Inventory cdelmo · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Macleod" when you mean: A surname from Irish, A surname from Scottish Gaelic, A surname from Cree
- Write "McLeod" when you mean: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, the anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Leòid
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 (Macleod, McLeod). Here's where to go from here.
- "Macleod" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #22,146 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: mod · marred. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Macleod, McLeod" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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