English homophones
yoghurt/yogurt
"yogurt" (#12,534 written frequency) beats "yoghurt" (#28,800) in this 2-word /ˈjɒɡət/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈjɒɡət/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "yogurt" leads at #12,534, with "yoghurt" trailing at #28,800.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "yog" then splits - "yoghurt" (7 letters) vs "yogurt" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across yoghurt, yogurt: gortuy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
yoghurt
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCCVCC
Inventory ghortuy · private h
yogurt
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCVCC
Inventory gortuy · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "yoghurt" when you mean: Alternative spelling of yogurt.
- Write "yogurt" when you mean: A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
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 (yoghurt, yogurt). Here's where to go from here.
- "yogurt" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,534 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: your · you're. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "yoghurt, yogurt" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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