Deutsch homophones
Haas/Hass
"Haas" is a name; "Hass" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Haas" arrives as a name, while "Hass" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "ha" then splits - "Haas" (4 letters) vs "Hass" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Haas, Hass: ahs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Haas
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ahs · no private letters vs siblings
Hass
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ahs · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Haas" when you mean: deutscher Nachname, Familienname
- Write "Hass" when you mean: sehr starke Abneigung gegen jemanden oder etwas, welche meist Aggression induziert
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.