Deutsch homophones
seid/seit
"seid" is a verb; "seit" is a preposition - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "seid" arrives as a verb, while "seit" is a preposition. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "seid" keeps d, "seit" writes t at letter 4.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across seid, seit: eis. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
seid
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory deis · private d
seit
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory eist · private t
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "seid" when you mean: [1] 2. Person Plural Präsens Indikativ des Verbs sein
- Write "seit" when you mean: von … an, ausgehend von … (Zeitpunkt)
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.