English homophones
mews/muse
"muse" (#13,199 written frequency) beats "mews" (#43,263) in this 2-word /mjuːz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /mjuːz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "muse" leads at #13,199, with "mews" trailing at #43,263.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "mews" is 4 letters, "muse" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across mews, muse: ems. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
mews
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory emsw · private w
muse
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory emsu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "mews" when you mean: An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
- Write "muse" when you mean: Of a person: a source of inspiration.
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 (mews, muse). Here's where to go from here.
- "muse" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #13,199 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: maximize · maximise. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "mews, muse" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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