Deutsch homophones

misst/Mist

"misst" is a verb; "Mist" is an intj - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "misst" arrives as a verb, while "Mist" is an intj. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "mis" then splits - "misst" (5 letters) vs "Mist" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across misst, Mist: imst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • misst

    5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC

    Inventory imst · no private letters vs siblings

  • Mist

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory imst · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "misst" when you mean: 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs messen
  • Write "Mist" when you mean: als Schimpfwort beziehungsweise Fluch verwendeter Ausdruck

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • misstimsst · misstt · mists · mißt · mmisst · msist
  • Mistimst · mistt · mits · mmist · msit

Each spelling

misst

verb · /mɪst/ · #8,755 frequency

2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs messen

Mist

intj · /mɪst/ · #2,554 frequency

als Schimpfwort beziehungsweise Fluch verwendeter Ausdruck

Nearby German homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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