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.