English homophones
1/one/won
"1" is a symbol; "one" is a num - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "1" arrives as a symbol, while "one" is a num. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "1" is 1 letters, "one" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "1" is 1 letters, "won" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "one" is 3 letters, "won" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across 1, one, won: none. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
1
0 letters · 0 vowels · shape
Inventory - · no private letters vs siblings
one
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory eno · private eno
won
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory now · private now
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "1" when you mean: Deliberate misspelling of !, imitating someone who is too excited to consistently press the shift key while typing exclamation marks.
- Write "one" when you mean: The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- Write "won" when you mean: simple past and past participle of win
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 3-spelling cluster (1, one, won). Here's where to go from here.
- "one" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #38 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 3 spellings ranks #30 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 3-spelling cluster: pain · Payne · pane. 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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