Deutsch homophones
Haan/Hahn/hann
"Haan" is a name; "Hahn" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Haan" arrives as a name, while "Hahn" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ha" then splits - "Haan" (4 letters) vs "Hahn" (4).
- Shared stem "ha" then splits - "Haan" (4 letters) vs "hann" (4).
- Shared stem "ha" then splits - "Hahn" (4 letters) vs "hann" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Haan, Hahn, hann: ahn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Haan
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ahn · no private letters vs siblings
Hahn
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ahn · no private letters vs siblings
hann
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ahn · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Haan" when you mean: eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
- Write "Hahn" when you mean: das männliche Tier verschiedener Vogelarten
- Write "hann" when you mean: Personalpronomen der 3. Person Maskulinum Singular im Nominativ: er
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.