Deutsch homophones
rote/Rothe
"rote" is an adjective; "Rothe" 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: "rote" arrives as an adjective, while "Rothe" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "rot" then splits - "rote" (4 letters) vs "Rothe" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across rote, Rothe: eort. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
rote
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory eort · no private letters vs siblings
Rothe
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory ehort · private h
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "rote" when you mean: Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs rot
- Write "Rothe" when you mean: Ortsteil der Stadt Beverungen, bis 1969 selbstständige Gemeinde
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.