English homophones
meats/meets
"meets" (#3,893 written frequency) beats "meats" (#15,449) in this 2-word /miːts/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /miːts/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "meets" leads at #3,893, with "meats" trailing at #15,449.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "me" then splits - "meats" (5 letters) vs "meets" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across meats, meets: emst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
meats
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory aemst · private a
meets
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory emst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "meats" when you mean: plural of meat
- Write "meets" when you mean: plural of meet
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 (meats, meets). Here's where to go from here.
- "meets" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,893 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: moose · mousse. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "meats, meets" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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