English homophones
sons/suns
"sons" (#3,028 written frequency) beats "suns" (#13,249) in this 2-word /sʌnz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /sʌnz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "sons" leads at #3,028, with "suns" trailing at #13,249.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "sons" is 4 letters, "suns" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across sons, suns: ns. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
sons
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory nos · private o
suns
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory nsu · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "sons" when you mean: plural of son
- Write "suns" when you mean: plural of sun
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 (sons, suns). Here's where to go from here.
- "sons" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,028 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: Sunday · sundae. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "sons, suns" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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