Deutsch homophones
reine/Rheine
"reine" is an adjective; "Rheine" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "reine" arrives as an adjective, while "Rheine" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "reine" is 5 letters, "Rheine" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across reine, Rheine: einr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
reine
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory einr · no private letters vs siblings
Rheine
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVVCV
Inventory ehinr · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "reine" when you mean: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rein
- Write "Rheine" when you mean: eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.