Deutsch homophones
liegen/Ligen
"liegen" is a verb; "Ligen" 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: "liegen" arrives as a verb, while "Ligen" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "li" then splits - "liegen" (6 letters) vs "Ligen" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across liegen, Ligen: egiln. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
liegen
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory egiln · no private letters vs siblings
Ligen
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory egiln · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "liegen" when you mean: eine mehr oder weniger horizontal ausgerichtete Lage einnehmen
- Write "Ligen" when you mean: Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Liga
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.