English homophones
sang/Tsang
"sang" is a verb; "Tsang" 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: "sang" arrives as a verb, while "Tsang" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "sang" is 4 letters, "Tsang" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across sang, Tsang: agns. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
sang
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory agns · no private letters vs siblings
Tsang
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory agnst · private t
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "sang" when you mean: simple past of sing
- Write "Tsang" when you mean: A surname.
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 (sang, Tsang). Here's where to go from here.
- "sang" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #6,094 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: sandy · Sandi. 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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