English homophones
stake/steak
"stake" (#5,631 written frequency) beats "steak" (#7,503) in this 2-word /steɪk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /steɪk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "stake" leads at #5,631, with "steak" trailing at #7,503.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "st" then splits - "stake" (5 letters) vs "steak" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across stake, steak: aekst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
stake
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCV
Inventory aekst · no private letters vs siblings
steak
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVC
Inventory aekst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "stake" when you mean: A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or …
- Write "steak" when you mean: Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
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 (stake, steak). Here's where to go from here.
- "stake" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #5,631 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: sandy · Sandi. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "stake, steak" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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