Deutsch homophones
peak/pic/Pik
"peak" (#20,363 written frequency) beats "pic" (#21,730) in this 3-word /piːk/ cluster. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /piːk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "peak" leads at #20,363, with "pic" trailing at #21,730.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "peak" is 4 letters, "pic" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "peak" is 4 letters, "Pik" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- Single-letter fork: "pic" keeps c, "Pik" writes k at letter 3.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across peak, pic, Pik: p. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
peak
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory aekp · private aek
pic
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory cip · private ci
Pik
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ikp · private ik
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "peak" when you mean: der Punkt eines Berges; Gipfel, Spitze, Bergspitze, Gipfelpunkt
- Write "pic" when you mean: Specht
- Write "Pik" when you mean: Farbe im französischen Kartenblatt mit einem schwarzen Lindenblatt als Symbol
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- peak ← epak · paek · peakk · peka · ppeak