English homophones
Yates/Yeats
"Yates" (#15,554 written frequency) beats "Yeats" (#32,255) in this 2-word /jeɪts/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /jeɪts/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Yates" leads at #15,554, with "Yeats" trailing at #32,255.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Yates" is 5 letters, "Yeats" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Yates, Yeats: aesty. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Yates
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCVC
Inventory aesty · no private letters vs siblings
Yeats
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVVCC
Inventory aesty · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Yates" when you mean: A surname.
- Write "Yeats" when you mean: A surname.
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 (Yates, Yeats). Here's where to go from here.
- "Yates" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #15,554 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: yuck · yuk. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Yates, Yeats" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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