English homophones
saith/Seth
"saith" is a verb; "Seth" 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: "saith" arrives as a verb, while "Seth" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "saith" is 5 letters, "Seth" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across saith, Seth: hst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
saith
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory ahist · private ai
Seth
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ehst · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "saith" when you mean: third-person singular simple present indicative of say
- Write "Seth" when you mean: The third son of Adam and Eve.
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 (saith, Seth). Here's where to go from here.
- "Seth" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #8,090 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: Scott · Scot. 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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