English homophones
waisted/wasted
"wasted" (#5,281 written frequency) beats "waisted" (#41,463) in this 2-word /ˈweɪstɪd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈweɪstɪd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "wasted" leads at #5,281, with "waisted" trailing at #41,463.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "wa" then splits - "waisted" (7 letters) vs "wasted" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across waisted, wasted: adestw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
waisted
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCVC
Inventory adeistw · private i
wasted
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory adestw · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "waisted" when you mean: Having some specific type of waist.
- Write "wasted" when you mean: Not profitably used.
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 (waisted, wasted). Here's where to go from here.
- "wasted" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #5,281 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: waste · waist. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "waisted, wasted" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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