English homophones
segue/Segway
"segue" is a verb; "Segway" 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: "segue" arrives as a verb, while "Segway" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "seg" then splits - "segue" (5 letters) vs "Segway" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across segue, Segway: egs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
segue
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV
Inventory egsu · private u
Segway
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV
Inventory aegswy · private awy
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "segue" when you mean: To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
- Write "Segway" when you mean: A motorised vehicle for one person, ridden while standing, and having two wheels on one axle that balances itself using gyroscopes and ti…
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 (segue, Segway). Here's where to go from here.
- "Segway" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #46,766 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: sticks · Styx. 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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