English homophones
yeo/yo
"yeo" is a noun; "yo" is an intj - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "yeo" arrives as a noun, while "yo" is an intj. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "yeo" is 3 letters, "yo" is 2; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across yeo, yo: oy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
yeo
3 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVV
Inventory eoy · private e
yo
2 letters · 2 vowels · shape VV
Inventory oy · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "yeo" when you mean: Alternative form of ea.
- Write "yo" when you mean: A greeting similar to hi.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (yeo, yo). Here's where to go from here.
- "yo" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #3,346 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: yeah · yer. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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