English homophones
stakes/steaks
"stakes" (#6,962 written frequency) beats "steaks" (#19,474) in this 2-word /steɪks/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /steɪks/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "stakes" leads at #6,962, with "steaks" trailing at #19,474.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "st" then splits - "stakes" (6 letters) vs "steaks" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across stakes, steaks: aekst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
stakes
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC
Inventory aekst · no private letters vs siblings
steaks
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVVCC
Inventory aekst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "stakes" when you mean: plural of stake
- Write "steaks" when you mean: plural of steak
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 (stakes, steaks). Here's where to go from here.
- "stakes" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #6,962 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: sign · sine. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "stakes, steaks" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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