Deutsch homophones
rot/Roth
"rot" is an adjective; "Roth" 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: "rot" arrives as an adjective, while "Roth" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "rot" then splits - "rot" (3 letters) vs "Roth" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across rot, Roth: ort. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
rot
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ort · no private letters vs siblings
Roth
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory hort · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "rot" when you mean: eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum die langwelligste Farbe; eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums
- Write "Roth" when you mean: deutscher Nachname, Familienname
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Roth ← orth · roht · rothh · rotth · rroth · rtoh