English homophones
parti/party
"party" (#308 written frequency) beats "parti" (#38,545) in this 2-word /ˈpɑːti/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈpɑːti/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "party" leads at #308, with "parti" trailing at #38,545.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "parti" keeps i, "party" writes y at letter 5.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across parti, party: aprt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
parti
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory aiprt · private i
party
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory aprty · private y
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "parti" when you mean: The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an architectural design.
- Write "party" when you mean: A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
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 (parti, party). Here's where to go from here.
- "party" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #308 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: peas · pease. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "parti, party" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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