English homophones
we've/weave
2 "we've, weave" spellings share pronunciation /wiːv/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Meaning separates the spellings
we've, weave are held together only by pronunciation /wiːv/. 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've" (5 letters) vs "weave" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across we've, weave: evw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
we've
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory evw · no private letters vs siblings
weave
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory aevw · private a
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "we've" when you mean: Contraction of we + have.
- Write "weave" when you mean: To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- weave ← ewave · waeve · weaev · weavve · wevae · wweave
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (we've, weave). Here's where to go from here.
- "weave" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #14,455 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: whack · wack. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "we've, weave" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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