Deutsch homophones
Fisch/fish
"Fisch" (#3,654 written frequency) beats "fish" (#18,543) in this 2-word /fɪʃ/ cluster. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /fɪʃ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Fisch" leads at #3,654, with "fish" trailing at #18,543.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "fis" then splits - "Fisch" (5 letters) vs "fish" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Fisch, fish: fhis. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Fisch
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory cfhis · private c
fish
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory fhis · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Fisch" when you mean: Tier, das unter Wasser lebt und durch Kiemen atmet
- Write "fish" when you mean: Fisch
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.