Deutsch homophones

Brand/Brandt

"Brand" is a noun; "Brandt" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "Brand" arrives as a noun, while "Brandt" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "brand" then splits - "Brand" (5 letters) vs "Brandt" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • Brand

    5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC

    Inventory abdnr · no private letters vs siblings

  • Brandt

    6 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCCC

    Inventory abdnrt · private t

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Brand" when you mean: unkontrolliertes Feuer
  • Write "Brandt" when you mean: deutscher Nachname, Familienname

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • Brandbarnd · bbrand · bradn · brandd · brannd · brnad
  • Brandtbarndt · bbrandt · bradnt · branddt · brandtt · branndt

Each spelling

Brand

noun · /bʁant/ · #2,879 frequency

unkontrolliertes Feuer

Brandt

name · /bʁant/ · #7,885 frequency

deutscher Nachname, Familienname

Nearby German homophone groups

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

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