English homophones
pool/Poole
"pool" is a noun; "Poole" 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: "pool" arrives as a noun, while "Poole" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "pool" then splits - "pool" (4 letters) vs "Poole" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across pool, Poole: lop. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
pool
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory lop · no private letters vs siblings
Poole
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory elop · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "pool" when you mean: A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a re…
- Write "Poole" when you mean: A town in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England.
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
noun · /puːl/ · #2,171 frequency
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
name · /puːl/ · #18,657 frequency
A town in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (pool, Poole). Here's where to go from here.
- "pool" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,171 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: packed · pact. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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