Deutsch homophones
Bus/buss
"Bus" is a noun; "buss" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Bus" arrives as a noun, while "buss" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "bus" then splits - "Bus" (3 letters) vs "buss" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Bus, buss: bsu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Bus
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory bsu · no private letters vs siblings
buss
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory bsu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Bus" when you mean: als Verkehrsmittel im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr eingesetztes vielsitziges, großes Kraftfahrzeug zur Beförderung einer größeren Anza…
- Write "buss" when you mean: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bussen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- buss ← bbuss · bsus · buß · ubss