Deutsch homophones
been/bin
"been" is a verb; "bin" is an unknown - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "been" arrives as a verb, while "bin" is an unknown. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "been" is 4 letters, "bin" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across been, bin: bn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
been
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ben · private e
bin
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory bin · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "been" when you mean: Past Participle des Verbs be
- Write "bin" when you mean: 1. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ von sein
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- been ← bbeen · beenn · ben