rhodes vs roads

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rhodes or roads?

What is the difference between rhodes and roads?

rhodes means "British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)". roads means "a partly sheltered anchorage". They are pronounced identically — /ˈɹoʊdz/ — so only the spelling and the meaning separate them.

Which is more common, rhodes or roads?

roads is the more common of the two — banded "Common" against "Familiar" for rhodes. Commonness is measured against a large corpus of everyday English, not judged.

Are rhodes and roads pronounced the same?

Yes. Both are /ˈɹoʊdz/, said rohdz. Words that sound alike and are spelled differently are homophones, and they are the commonest source of written mix-ups in English.

Can rhodes and roads be used in the same place in a sentence?

Both work as nouns, so they are grammatically interchangeable. That is exactly what makes the meaning difference worth checking.

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