English homophones
sac/sack
"sack" (#8,200 written frequency) beats "sac" (#11,789) in this 2-word /sæk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /sæk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "sack" leads at #8,200, with "sac" trailing at #11,789.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "sac" then splits - "sac" (3 letters) vs "sack" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across sac, sack: acs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
sac
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory acs · no private letters vs siblings
sack
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory acks · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "sac" when you mean: A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
- Write "sack" when you mean: A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee;…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- sack ← asck · sacck · sackk · sakc · scak · ssack
Each spelling
noun · /sæk/ · #11,789 frequency
A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
noun · /sæk/ · #8,200 frequency
A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (sac, sack). Here's where to go from here.
- "sack" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #8,200 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: spa · spar. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "sac, sack" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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