Deutsch homophones
leere/Lehre
"leere" is an adjective; "Lehre" 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: "leere" arrives as an adjective, while "Lehre" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "le" then splits - "leere" (5 letters) vs "Lehre" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across leere, Lehre: elr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
leere
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory elr · no private letters vs siblings
Lehre
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory ehlr · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "leere" when you mean: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs leer
- Write "Lehre" when you mean: sprachliche Darstellung eines Wissensgebietes in Lehrbüchern oder Vorträgen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.