English homophones
sighs/size
"size" (#778 written frequency) beats "sighs" (#17,719) in this 2-word /saɪz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /saɪz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "size" leads at #778, with "sighs" trailing at #17,719.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "si" then splits - "sighs" (5 letters) vs "size" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across sighs, size: is. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
sighs
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory ghis · private gh
size
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory eisz · private ez
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "sighs" when you mean: plural of sigh
- Write "size" when you mean: The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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 (sighs, size). Here's where to go from here.
- "size" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #778 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: sweet · suite. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "sighs, size" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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