English homophones
poo/Pooh
"poo" is a noun; "Pooh" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "poo" arrives as a noun, while "Pooh" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "poo" then splits - "poo" (3 letters) vs "Pooh" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across poo, Pooh: op. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
poo
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVV
Inventory op · no private letters vs siblings
Pooh
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory hop · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "poo" when you mean: Alternative spelling of pooh: an instance of saying "poo".
- Write "Pooh" when you mean: Ellipsis of Winnie the Pooh.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Pooh ← opoh · poh · poho · poohh · ppooh
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (poo, Pooh). Here's where to go from here.
- "poo" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #14,190 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: per · purr. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.