English homophones
people's/peoples
2 "people's, peoples" spellings share pronunciation /ˈpiːpəlz/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Meaning separates the spellings
people's, peoples are held together only by pronunciation /ˈpiːpəlz/. With no grammar or frequency gap large enough to tip the choice, read each definition before you commit a spelling.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "people" then splits - "people's" (8 letters) vs "peoples" (7).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across people's, peoples: elops. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
people's
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCVC
Inventory elops · no private letters vs siblings
peoples
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCVC
Inventory elops · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "people's" when you mean: Considered to be of, from, or in tune with the common people, rather than from a ruling elite.
- Write "peoples" when you mean: plural of people (“a race, group or nationality”)
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- peoples ← epoples · peolpes · peopels · peopless · peoplles · peoplse
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (people's, peoples). Here's where to go from here.
- "peoples" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,623 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: pray · prey. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "people's, peoples" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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