Deutsch homophones
Chor/Kor/Korps
"Chor" (#3,714 written frequency) beats "Korps" (#18,603) in this 3-word /koːɐ̯/ cluster. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /koːɐ̯/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Chor" leads at #3,714, with "Korps" trailing at #18,603.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Chor" is 4 letters, "Kor" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Chor" is 4 letters, "Korps" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- Shared stem "kor" then splits - "Kor" (3 letters) vs "Korps" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Chor, Kor, Korps: or. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Chor
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory chor · private ch
Kor
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory kor · private k
Korps
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory koprs · private kps
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Chor" when you mean: Ensemble von Sängern, das gemeinsam Chorwerke vorträgt
- Write "Kor" when you mean: in der Bibel vorkommendes Hohlmaß: 1 Kor = 10 Bat = ca. 400 l
- Write "Korps" when you mean: Großverband, dem oft mehrere Divisionen unterstehen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.