English homophones
neighborhood/neighbourhood
"neighborhood" (#3,012 written frequency) beats "neighbourhood" (#7,819) in this 2-word /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "neighborhood" leads at #3,012, with "neighbourhood" trailing at #7,819.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "neighbo" then splits - "neighborhood" (12 letters) vs "neighbourhood" (13).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across neighborhood, neighbourhood: bdeghinor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
neighborhood
12 letters · 5 vowels · shape CVVCCCVCCVVC
Inventory bdeghinor · no private letters vs siblings
neighbourhood
13 letters · 6 vowels · shape CVVCCCVVCCVVC
Inventory bdeghinoru · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "neighborhood" when you mean: The residential area near one's home.
- Write "neighbourhood" when you mean: British standard spelling of neighborhood.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- neighborhood ← enighborhood · negihborhood · neigbhorhood · neigghborhood · neighbborhood · neighbohrood
- neighbourhood ← enighbourhood · negihbourhood · neigbhourhood · neigghbourhood · neighbbourhood · neighboruhood
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (neighborhood, neighbourhood). Here's where to go from here.
- "neighborhood" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,012 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: nay · nee. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "neighborhood, neighbourhood" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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