English homophones
peas/pease
"peas" (#12,121 written frequency) beats "pease" (#37,149) in this 2-word /piːz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /piːz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "peas" leads at #12,121, with "pease" trailing at #37,149.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "peas" then splits - "peas" (4 letters) vs "pease" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across peas, pease: aeps. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
peas
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory aeps · no private letters vs siblings
pease
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory aeps · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "peas" when you mean: plural of pea
- Write "pease" when you mean: Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).
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
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- "peas" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,121 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: pit · Pitt. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "peas, pease" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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