Deutsch homophones
Frack/frag
"Frack" is a noun; "frag" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Frack" arrives as a noun, while "frag" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "fra" then splits - "Frack" (5 letters) vs "frag" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Frack, frag: afr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Frack
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory acfkr · private ck
frag
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory afgr · private g
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Frack" when you mean: festliche (schwarze) Männerjacke, die vorne nur bis zur Taille reicht und hinten charakteristische lange Schöße hat
- Write "frag" when you mean: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs fragen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.