English homophones
wade/weighed
"wade" (#7,409 written frequency) beats "weighed" (#9,554) in this 2-word /weɪd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /weɪd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "wade" leads at #7,409, with "weighed" trailing at #9,554.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "wade" is 4 letters, "weighed" is 7; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across wade, weighed: dew. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
wade
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory adew · private a
weighed
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCVC
Inventory deghiw · private ghi
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "wade" when you mean: To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- Write "weighed" when you mean: simple past and past participle of weigh
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 (wade, weighed). Here's where to go from here.
- "wade" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #7,409 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: wah · wha. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "wade, weighed" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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