English homophones
marred/mod
"marred" is an adjective; "mod" 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: "marred" arrives as an adjective, while "mod" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "marred" is 6 letters, "mod" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across marred, mod: dm. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
marred
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory ademr · private aer
mod
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory dmo · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "marred" when you mean: Spoiled; harmed or damaged.
- Write "mod" when you mean: An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoat…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- marred ← amrred · mared · marerd · marrde · marredd · mmarred
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (marred, mod). Here's where to go from here.
- "mod" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #8,172 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: mole · mol. 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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