English homophones
spa/spar
"spa" (#7,611 written frequency) beats "spar" (#26,972) in this 2-word /ˈspɑː/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈspɑː/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "spa" leads at #7,611, with "spar" trailing at #26,972.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "spa" then splits - "spa" (3 letters) vs "spar" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across spa, spar: aps. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
spa
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCV
Inventory aps · no private letters vs siblings
spar
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory aprs · private r
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "spa" when you mean: A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
- Write "spar" when you mean: A rafter of a roof.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- spar ← psar · sapr · sparr · sppar · spra · sspar
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (spa, spar). Here's where to go from here.
- "spa" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,611 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: seem · seam. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "spa, spar" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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