English homophones

profit/prophet

"profit" (#2,051 written frequency) beats "prophet" (#7,378) in this 2-word /ˈpɹɒfɪt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈpɹɒfɪt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "profit" leads at #2,051, with "prophet" trailing at #7,378.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "pro" then splits - "profit" (6 letters) vs "prophet" (7).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across profit, prophet: oprt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • profit

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC

    Inventory fioprt · private fi

  • prophet

    7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCVC

    Inventory ehoprt · private eh

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "profit" when you mean: Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchan…
  • Write "prophet" when you mean: Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • profitporfit · pprofit · prfoit · proffit · profitt · profti
  • prophetporphet · pprophet · prohpet · propeht · prophett · prophhet

Each spelling

profit

noun · /ˈpɹɒfɪt/ · #2,051 frequency

Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.

prophet

noun · /ˈpɹɒf.ɪt/ · #7,378 frequency

Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.

Nearby English homophone groups

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  • "profit" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,051 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: packs · pax. Nearby cluster
  • Each spelling in "profit, prophet" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list