Deutsch homophones
meat/meet/miet
"meat" is a noun; "meet" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "meat" arrives as a noun, while "meet" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "me" then splits - "meat" (4 letters) vs "meet" (4).
- No shared spelling stem: "meat" is 4 letters, "miet" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "meet" is 4 letters, "miet" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across meat, meet, miet: emt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
meat
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory aemt · private a
meet
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory emt · no private letters vs siblings
miet
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory eimt · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "meat" when you mean: die als Nahrung gedachte Muskulatur
- Write "meet" when you mean: jemanden treffen, jemandem begegnen
- Write "miet" when you mean: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mieten
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.