Deutsch homophones
Bund/bunt
"Bund" is a noun; "bunt" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Bund" arrives as a noun, while "bunt" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "Bund" keeps d, "bunt" writes t at letter 4.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Bund, bunt: bnu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Bund
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory bdnu · private d
bunt
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory bntu · private t
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Bund" when you mean: eine Gruppe von souveränen Staaten, die sich für eine gemeinsame (Teil-)Politik zusammentun
- Write "bunt" when you mean: viele Farben nebeneinander aufweisend
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.