English homophones
suede/swayed
"suede" is a noun; "swayed" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "suede" arrives as a noun, while "swayed" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "suede" is 5 letters, "swayed" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across suede, swayed: des. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
suede
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory desu · private u
swayed
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVVVC
Inventory adeswy · private awy
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "suede" when you mean: A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion acc…
- Write "swayed" when you mean: simple past and past participle of sway
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 (suede, swayed). Here's where to go from here.
- "suede" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #21,085 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: sown · sone. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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