English homophones
mets/Metz
"mets" is a noun; "Metz" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "mets" arrives as a noun, while "Metz" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "mets" keeps s, "Metz" writes z at letter 4.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across mets, Metz: emt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
mets
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory emst · private s
Metz
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory emtz · private z
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "mets" when you mean: Clipping of metastases.
- Write "Metz" when you mean: The capital city of Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
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 (mets, Metz). Here's where to go from here.
- "mets" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #11,568 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: males · mails. 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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