Deutsch homophones
Kain/kein
"Kain" is a name; "kein" is a pronoun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Kain" arrives as a name, while "kein" is a pronoun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Kain" is 4 letters, "kein" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Kain, kein: ikn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Kain
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory aikn · private a
kein
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory eikn · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Kain" when you mean: biblischer männlicher Eigenname
- Write "kein" when you mean: null, nichts, Null
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.