Deutsch homophones
direct/direkt
"direkt" (#393 written frequency) beats "direct" (#14,541) in this 2-word /di.ʁɛkt/ cluster. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /di.ʁɛkt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "direkt" leads at #393, with "direct" trailing at #14,541.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "dire" then splits - "direct" (6 letters) vs "direkt" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across direct, direkt: deirt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
direct
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVCC
Inventory cdeirt · private c
direkt
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVCC
Inventory deikrt · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "direct" when you mean: aufrecht, direkt, gerade, gradlinig, unmittelbar, recht
- Write "direkt" when you mean: in gerader Richtung, ohne Umwege, ohne Umschweife, ohne Verzögerung
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.