Deutsch homophones

seht/Seth

"seht" is a verb; "Seth" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "seht" arrives as a verb, while "Seth" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "se" then splits - "seht" (4 letters) vs "Seth" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across seht, Seth: ehst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • seht

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory ehst · no private letters vs siblings

  • Seth

    4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC

    Inventory ehst · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "seht" when you mean: 2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sehen
  • Write "Seth" when you mean: biblischer männlicher Eigenname; dritter Sohn von Adam und Eva

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • sehtesht · sehht · sehtt · shet · sseht
  • Sethesth · sethh · setth · sseth

Each spelling

seht

verb · /zeːt/ · #3,847 frequency

2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sehen

Seth

name · /zeːt/ · #22,139 frequency

biblischer männlicher Eigenname; dritter Sohn von Adam und Eva

Nearby German homophone groups

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

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