Deutsch homophones
dies/dix
"dies" is a pronoun; "dix" is a num - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "dies" arrives as a pronoun, while "dix" is a num. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "di" then splits - "dies" (4 letters) vs "dix" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across dies, dix: di. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
dies
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory deis · private es
dix
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory dix · private x
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "dies" when you mean: adverbialer Gebrauch, um ein ganz bestimmtes, nahe liegendes Nomen hervorzuheben
- Write "dix" when you mean: zehn, 10
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- dies ← ddies · deis · diess · dise · ides