English homophones
statesman/statesmen
"statesman" (#15,921 written frequency) beats "statesmen" (#33,859) in this 2-word /ˈsteɪtsmən/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈsteɪtsmən/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "statesman" leads at #15,921, with "statesmen" trailing at #33,859.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "statesm" then splits - "statesman" (9 letters) vs "statesmen" (9).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across statesman, statesmen: aemnst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
statesman
9 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCVCCVC
Inventory aemnst · no private letters vs siblings
statesmen
9 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCVCCVC
Inventory aemnst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "statesman" when you mean: A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
- Write "statesmen" when you mean: plural of statesman
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
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- "statesman" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #15,921 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: sack · sac. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "statesman, statesmen" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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