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.

  • Haasahas · haass · hasa · hhaas
  • Hassahss · haß · hhass · hsas

Each spelling

Haas

name · /haːs/ · #12,091 frequency

deutscher Nachname, Familienname

Hass

noun · /has/ · #2,598 frequency

sehr starke Abneigung gegen jemanden oder etwas, welche meist Aggression induziert

Nearby German homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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