Deutsch homophones
coup/Kuh/Q
"coup" is a noun; "Q" is a character - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "coup" arrives as a noun, while "Q" is a character. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "coup" is 4 letters, "Kuh" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "coup" is 4 letters, "Q" is 1; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Kuh" is 3 letters, "Q" is 1; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across coup, Kuh, Q: none. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
coup
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory copu · private copu
Kuh
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory hku · private hku
Q
1 letters · 0 vowels · shape C
Inventory q · private q
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "coup" when you mean: Treffen, Anschlag, Hieb, Schlag, Streich
- Write "Kuh" when you mean: Muttertier des Hausrinds
- Write "Q" when you mean: 17. Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets, entspricht dem frühgriechischen Qoppa (später verschmolzen mit Kappa); kommt im Deutschen nur i…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- coup ← ccoup · copu · coupp · cuop · ocup
Each spelling
character · /kuː/ · #4,458 frequency
17. Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets, entspricht dem frühgriechischen Qoppa (später verschmolzen mit Kappa); kommt im Deutschen nur in der Verbindung qu (IPA: [kv], [kw]) vor