Deutsch homophones
Heer/her
"Heer" is a noun; "her" is an adverb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Heer" arrives as a noun, while "her" is an adverb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "he" then splits - "Heer" (4 letters) vs "her" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Heer, her: ehr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Heer
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ehr · no private letters vs siblings
her
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ehr · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Heer" when you mean: Gesamtheit der Landstreitkräfte eines Staates
- Write "her" when you mean: Bewegung in Richtung des Sprechenden von einem entfernteren Ort aus
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Heer ← heerr · hheer