English homophones
throne/thrown
"throne" is a noun; "thrown" 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: "throne" arrives as a noun, while "thrown" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "thro" then splits - "throne" (6 letters) vs "thrown" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across throne, thrown: hnort. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
throne
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCCVCV
Inventory ehnort · private e
thrown
6 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCCVCC
Inventory hnortw · private w
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "throne" when you mean: An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.
- Write "thrown" when you mean: past participle of throw
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 (throne, thrown). Here's where to go from here.
- "thrown" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,663 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: tarot · taro. 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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