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.