English homophones
mind/mined
"mind" is a noun; "mined" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "mind" arrives as a noun, while "mined" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "min" then splits - "mind" (4 letters) vs "mined" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across mind, mined: dimn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
mind
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory dimn · no private letters vs siblings
mined
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory deimn · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "mind" when you mean: The capability for rational thought.
- Write "mined" when you mean: That has been mined (in various senses).
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 (mind, mined). Here's where to go from here.
- "mind" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #378 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: mill · mil. 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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