Deutsch homophones
dan/dann
"dan" is a noun; "dann" is an adverb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "dan" arrives as a noun, while "dann" is an adverb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "dan" then splits - "dan" (3 letters) vs "dann" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across dan, dann: adn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
dan
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory adn · no private letters vs siblings
dann
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory adn · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "dan" when you mean: Zeitraum zwischen Sonnenaufgang und Sonnenuntergang; Tag
- Write "dann" when you mean: zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt oder einer späteren Zeitspanne in der baldigen Zukunft
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- dann ← adnn · ddann · dnan