English homophones
ring/wring
"ring" is a noun; "wring" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "ring" arrives as a noun, while "wring" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "ring" is 4 letters, "wring" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across ring, wring: ginr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
ring
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ginr · no private letters vs siblings
wring
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory ginrw · private w
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "ring" when you mean: A solid object in the shape of a circle.
- Write "wring" when you mean: Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
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
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (ring, wring). Here's where to go from here.
- "ring" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,644 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: wrote · rote. 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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