Deutsch homophones

Cannes/Kahn/kann/Khan

"Cannes" is a name; "Kahn" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #2 of 483 German groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "Cannes" arrives as a name, while "Kahn" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • No shared spelling stem: "Cannes" is 6 letters, "Kahn" is 4; only the sound ties them.
  • No shared spelling stem: "Cannes" is 6 letters, "kann" is 4; only the sound ties them.
  • No shared spelling stem: "Cannes" is 6 letters, "Khan" is 4; only the sound ties them.
  • Shared stem "ka" then splits - "Kahn" (4 letters) vs "kann" (4).
  • No shared spelling stem: "Kahn" is 4 letters, "Khan" is 4; only the sound ties them.
  • No shared spelling stem: "kann" is 4 letters, "Khan" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across Cannes, Kahn, kann, Khan: an. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • Cannes

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory acens · private ces

  • Kahn

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory ahkn · private hk

  • kann

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory akn · private k

  • Khan

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC

    Inventory ahkn · private hk

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Cannes" when you mean: Stadt im Südosten von Frankreich
  • Write "Kahn" when you mean: kleines, ungedecktes Wasserfahrzeug mit flachem Boden, das in Flüssen, Binnen- und Hafengewässern eingesetzt werden kann
  • Write "kann" when you mean: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs können
  • Write "Khan" when you mean: Titel eines mongolischen oder türkischen Herrschers

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • Cannesacnnes · canens · canes · canness · cannse · ccannes
  • Kahnakhn · kahhn · kahnn · kanh · kkahn
  • kannaknn · kkann · knan
  • Khanhkan · khann · khhan · khna · kkhan

Each spelling

Cannes

name · /kan/ · #17,839 frequency

Stadt im Südosten von Frankreich

Kahn

noun · /kaːn/ · #14,600 frequency

kleines, ungedecktes Wasserfahrzeug mit flachem Boden, das in Flüssen, Binnen- und Hafengewässern eingesetzt werden kann

kann

verb · /kan/ · #53 frequency

1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs können

Khan

noun · /kaːn/ · #13,638 frequency

Titel eines mongolischen oder türkischen Herrschers

Nearby German homophone groups

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

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