English homophones
moose/mousse
"moose" (#12,809 written frequency) beats "mousse" (#30,508) in this 2-word /muːs/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /muːs/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "moose" leads at #12,809, with "mousse" trailing at #30,508.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "mo" then splits - "moose" (5 letters) vs "mousse" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across moose, mousse: emos. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
moose
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory emos · no private letters vs siblings
mousse
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCV
Inventory emosu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "moose" when you mean: The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate an…
- Write "mousse" when you mean: An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
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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- "moose" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,809 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: meet · meat. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "moose, mousse" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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