English homophones
we'd/weed
2 "we'd, weed" spellings share pronunciation /wiːd/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Meaning separates the spellings
we'd, weed are held together only by pronunciation /wiːd/. With no grammar or frequency gap large enough to tip the choice, read each definition before you commit a spelling.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "we" then splits - "we'd" (4 letters) vs "weed" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across we'd, weed: dew. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
we'd
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory dew · no private letters vs siblings
weed
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory dew · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "we'd" when you mean: Contraction of we + had.
- Write "weed" when you mean: Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- weed ← ewed · wede · weedd · wweed
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (we'd, weed). Here's where to go from here.
- "weed" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,566 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: wears · wares. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "we'd, weed" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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