English homophones
waits/weights
"weights" (#8,875 written frequency) beats "waits" (#11,637) in this 2-word /weɪts/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /weɪts/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "weights" leads at #8,875, with "waits" trailing at #11,637.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "waits" is 5 letters, "weights" is 7; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across waits, weights: istw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
waits
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory aistw · private a
weights
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCCCC
Inventory eghistw · private egh
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "waits" when you mean: plural of wait
- Write "weights" when you mean: plural 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
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- "weights" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #8,875 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: what · watt. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "waits, weights" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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