English homophones
tornadoes/tornados
"tornadoes" (#20,517 written frequency) beats "tornados" (#48,533) in this 2-word /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪd.əʊz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪd.əʊz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "tornadoes" leads at #20,517, with "tornados" trailing at #48,533.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "tornado" then splits - "tornadoes" (9 letters) vs "tornados" (8).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across tornadoes, tornados: adnorst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
tornadoes
9 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCCVCVVC
Inventory adenorst · private e
tornados
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVCVC
Inventory adnorst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "tornadoes" when you mean: plural of tornado
- Write "tornados" when you mean: plural of tornado
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 (tornadoes, tornados). Here's where to go from here.
- "tornadoes" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #20,517 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: Thor · thaw. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "tornadoes, tornados" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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