Deutsch homophones
Rainer/reiner
"Rainer" is a name; "reiner" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Rainer" arrives as a name, while "reiner" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Rainer" is 6 letters, "reiner" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Rainer, reiner: einr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Rainer
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory aeinr · private a
reiner
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory einr · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Rainer" when you mean: männlicher Vorname
- Write "reiner" when you mean: Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rein
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.