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.
Data vintage
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.