Deutsch homophones

bahnt/Band

"bahnt" is a verb; "Band" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "bahnt" arrives as a verb, while "Band" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "ba" then splits - "bahnt" (5 letters) vs "Band" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across bahnt, Band: abn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • bahnt

    5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC

    Inventory abhnt · private ht

  • Band

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory abdn · private d

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "bahnt" when you mean: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bahnen
  • Write "Band" when you mean: Plural »Bänder«:

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • bahntabhnt · bahhnt · bahnnt · bahntt · bahtn · banht
  • Bandabnd · badn · bandd · bannd · bband · bnad

Each spelling

bahnt

verb · /baːnt/ · #36,212 frequency

3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bahnen

Band

noun · /bant/ · #744 frequency

Plural »Bänder«:

Nearby German homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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