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437 here.
Well, you mean"rite" and "write" and "wright" in English, right? (also,"right")
It seems like a good way to avoid homophone confusions, but you're underestimating how much Japanese abounds with homophones.
You know, unlike English, Japanese has a desperately poor phonological system, which consists of 50 kinds of moras, and its insufficiency of phoneme has provided Japanese with infinite homophones.
There is an INFINITE number of them. I don't need to list examples because almost every single word composed of 4 moras has at least one or two homophones.
Your idea may work as far as it is applied to pre-Meiji Japanese, though.