English homophones
parlor/parlour
"parlor" (#18,646 written frequency) beats "parlour" (#24,267) in this 2-word /ˈpɑːlə/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈpɑːlə/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "parlor" leads at #18,646, with "parlour" trailing at #24,267.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "parlo" then splits - "parlor" (6 letters) vs "parlour" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across parlor, parlour: alopr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
parlor
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory alopr · no private letters vs siblings
parlour
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC
Inventory alopru · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "parlor" when you mean: The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
- Write "parlour" when you mean: Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor.
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 (parlor, parlour). Here's where to go from here.
- "parlor" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #18,646 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: paste · paced. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "parlor, parlour" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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