English homophones
pains/panes
"pains" (#9,077 written frequency) beats "panes" (#33,357) in this 2-word /peɪnz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /peɪnz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "pains" leads at #9,077, with "panes" trailing at #33,357.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "pa" then splits - "pains" (5 letters) vs "panes" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across pains, panes: anps. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
pains
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory ainps · private i
panes
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aenps · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "pains" when you mean: plural of pain
- Write "panes" when you mean: plural of pane
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
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (pains, panes). Here's where to go from here.
- "pains" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #9,077 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: plane · plain. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "pains, panes" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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