English homophones

meu/mew/mu

"mu" (#11,427 written frequency) beats "mew" (#28,994) in this 3-word /ˈmjuː/ cluster. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage 2026-09-03

Frequency splits the cluster

These 3 spellings keep the same /ˈmjuː/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "mu" leads at #11,427, with "mew" trailing at #28,994.

Single-letter fork: "meu" keeps u, "mew" writes w at letter 3.
No shared spelling stem: "meu" is 3 letters, "mu" is 2; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "mew" is 3 letters, "mu" is 2; only the sound ties them.

Shared letters across meu, mew, mu: m. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

noun · /ˈmjuː/ · #48,897 frequency

Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

noun · /mjuː/ · #28,994 frequency

A gull, seagull.

noun · /mjuː/ · #11,427 frequency

The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.

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"mu" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #11,427 in English). Full entry
Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 3 spellings ranks #30 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
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