English homophones
yaw/yore
"yaw" (#34,355 written frequency) beats "yore" (#45,179) in this 2-word /jɔː/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /jɔː/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "yaw" leads at #34,355, with "yore" trailing at #45,179.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "yaw" is 3 letters, "yore" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across yaw, yore: y. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
yaw
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVC
Inventory awy · private aw
yore
4 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCV
Inventory eory · private eor
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "yaw" when you mean: The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or miss…
- Write "yore" when you mean: A time long past.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- yore ← oyre · yoer · yorre · yroe · yyore
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (yaw, yore). Here's where to go from here.
- "yaw" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #34,355 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: Yates · Yeats. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "yaw, yore" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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