Deutsch homophones

Saat/Sat/satt

"Saat" is a noun; "Sat" is an abbrev - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "Saat" arrives as a noun, while "Sat" is an abbrev. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "sa" then splits - "Saat" (4 letters) vs "Sat" (3).
  • Shared stem "sa" then splits - "Saat" (4 letters) vs "satt" (4).
  • Shared stem "sat" then splits - "Sat" (3 letters) vs "satt" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across Saat, Sat, satt: ast. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • Saat

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC

    Inventory ast · no private letters vs siblings

  • Sat

    3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC

    Inventory ast · no private letters vs siblings

  • satt

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory ast · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "Saat" when you mean: das Ausbringen von Pflanzensamen in die Erde
  • Write "Sat" when you mean: Satellit
  • Write "satt" when you mean: nicht mehr hungrig; keinen Hunger mehr habend

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • Saatasat · saatt · sata · ssaat
  • sattastt · ssatt

Each spelling

Saat

noun · /zaːt/ · #24,104 frequency

das Ausbringen von Pflanzensamen in die Erde

Sat

abbrev · /zat/ · #8,450 frequency

Satellit

satt

adjective · /zat/ · #6,348 frequency

nicht mehr hungrig; keinen Hunger mehr habend

Nearby German homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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