English homophones
waited/weighted
"waited" (#4,642 written frequency) beats "weighted" (#11,639) in this 2-word /ˈweɪt.ɪd/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈweɪt.ɪd/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "waited" leads at #4,642, with "weighted" trailing at #11,639.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "waited" is 6 letters, "weighted" is 8; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across waited, weighted: deitw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
waited
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory adeitw · private a
weighted
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCCCVC
Inventory deghitw · private gh
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "waited" when you mean: simple past and past participle of wait
- Write "weighted" when you mean: simple past and past participle of weight
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 (waited, weighted). Here's where to go from here.
- "waited" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,642 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: wot · wart. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "waited, weighted" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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