English homophones
seeks/Sikhs
"seeks" is a verb; "Sikhs" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "seeks" arrives as a verb, while "Sikhs" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "seeks" is 5 letters, "Sikhs" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across seeks, Sikhs: ks. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
seeks
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory eks · private e
Sikhs
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory hiks · private hi
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "seeks" when you mean: third-person singular simple present indicative of seek
- Write "Sikhs" when you mean: plural of Sikh
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 (seeks, Sikhs). Here's where to go from here.
- "seeks" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #5,836 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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