Deutsch homophones
feel/fiel/viel
"feel" is a verb; "viel" is an adverb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "feel" arrives as a verb, while "viel" is an adverb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "feel" is 4 letters, "fiel" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "feel" is 4 letters, "viel" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "fiel" is 4 letters, "viel" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across feel, fiel, viel: el. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
feel
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory efl · private f
fiel
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory efil · private fi
viel
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory eilv · private iv
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "feel" when you mean: fühlen, spüren
- Write "fiel" when you mean: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
- Write "viel" when you mean: eine unbestimmte, große Menge von etwas; reichlich
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.