Deutsch homophones
Cannes/Kahn/kann/Khan
"Cannes" is a name; "Kahn" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #2 of 483 German groups.
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Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Cannes" arrives as a name, while "Kahn" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Cannes" is 6 letters, "Kahn" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Cannes" is 6 letters, "kann" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Cannes" is 6 letters, "Khan" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- Shared stem "ka" then splits - "Kahn" (4 letters) vs "kann" (4).
- No shared spelling stem: "Kahn" is 4 letters, "Khan" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "kann" is 4 letters, "Khan" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Cannes, Kahn, kann, Khan: an. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Cannes
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory acens · private ces
Kahn
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ahkn · private hk
kann
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory akn · private k
Khan
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory ahkn · private hk
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Cannes" when you mean: Stadt im Südosten von Frankreich
- Write "Kahn" when you mean: kleines, ungedecktes Wasserfahrzeug mit flachem Boden, das in Flüssen, Binnen- und Hafengewässern eingesetzt werden kann
- Write "kann" when you mean: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs können
- Write "Khan" when you mean: Titel eines mongolischen oder türkischen Herrschers
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
noun · /kaːn/ · #14,600 frequency
kleines, ungedecktes Wasserfahrzeug mit flachem Boden, das in Flüssen, Binnen- und Hafengewässern eingesetzt werden kann