English homophones
sewing/sowing
"sewing" (#11,459 written frequency) beats "sowing" (#29,099) in this 2-word /ˈsəʊɪŋ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈsəʊɪŋ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "sewing" leads at #11,459, with "sowing" trailing at #29,099.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "sewing" is 6 letters, "sowing" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across sewing, sowing: ginsw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
sewing
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVCC
Inventory eginsw · private e
sowing
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVCC
Inventory ginosw · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "sewing" when you mean: present participle and gerund of sew
- Write "sowing" when you mean: present participle and gerund of sow
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 (sewing, sowing). Here's where to go from here.
- "sewing" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #11,459 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: SWAT · swot. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "sewing, sowing" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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