Deutsch homophones

Block/Blog

"Blog" (#2,641 written frequency) beats "Block" (#3,947) in this 2-word /blɔk/ cluster. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /blɔk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Blog" leads at #2,641, with "Block" trailing at #3,947.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "blo" then splits - "Block" (5 letters) vs "Blog" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • Block

    5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC

    Inventory bcklo · private ck

  • Blog

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC

    Inventory bglo · private g

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Block" when you mean: großes Stück fest verbundenen Materials, ungefähr quaderförmig
  • Write "Blog" when you mean: öffentliches Tagebuch im Internet

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Blockbblock · blcok · bllock · blocck · blockk · blokc
  • Blogbblog · blgo · bllog · blogg · bolg · lbog

Each spelling

Block

noun · /blɔk/ · #3,947 frequency

großes Stück fest verbundenen Materials, ungefähr quaderförmig

Blog

noun · /blɔk/ · #2,641 frequency

öffentliches Tagebuch im Internet

Nearby German homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list