English homophones
sing/Singh
"sing" is a verb; "Singh" 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: "sing" arrives as a verb, while "Singh" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "sing" then splits - "sing" (4 letters) vs "Singh" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across sing, Singh: gins. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
sing
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory gins · no private letters vs siblings
Singh
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory ghins · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "sing" when you mean: To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- Write "Singh" when you mean: A surname from Punjabi.
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 (sing, Singh). Here's where to go from here.
- "sing" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #2,810 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: sunny · sonny. 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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