English homophones
Montagu/Montague
"Montague" (#26,171 written frequency) beats "Montagu" (#41,258) in this 2-word /ˈmɒntəɡjuː/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈmɒntəɡjuː/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Montague" leads at #26,171, with "Montagu" trailing at #41,258.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "montagu" then splits - "Montagu" (7 letters) vs "Montague" (8).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Montagu, Montague: agmnotu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Montagu
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVCV
Inventory agmnotu · no private letters vs siblings
Montague
8 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCCVCVV
Inventory aegmnotu · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Montagu" when you mean: A surname from Old French.
- Write "Montague" when you mean: A surname from Old French, variant of Montagu.
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
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- "Montague" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #26,171 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: max · macs. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Montagu, Montague" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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