English homophones
Misses/Mrs
"Mrs" (#1,372 written frequency) beats "Misses" (#8,958) in this 2-word /ˈmɪsɪz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈmɪsɪz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Mrs" leads at #1,372, with "Misses" trailing at #8,958.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Misses" is 6 letters, "Mrs" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Misses, Mrs: ms. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Misses
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory eims · private ei
Mrs
3 letters · 0 vowels · shape CCC
Inventory mrs · private r
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Misses" when you mean: plural of Miss
- Write "Mrs" when you mean: Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marita…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Misses ← imsses · mises · misess · missess · missse · mmisses
Each spelling
noun · /ˈmɪsɪz/ · #1,372 frequency
Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (Misses, Mrs). Here's where to go from here.
- "Mrs" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,372 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: muse · mews. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Misses, Mrs" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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