Deutsch homophones
shirt/shirts
"shirt" (#3,772 written frequency) beats "shirts" (#6,974) in this 2-word /ʃɜːt/ cluster. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ʃɜːt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "shirt" leads at #3,772, with "shirts" trailing at #6,974.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "shirt" then splits - "shirt" (5 letters) vs "shirts" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across shirt, shirts: hirst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
shirt
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC
Inventory hirst · no private letters vs siblings
shirts
6 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCCC
Inventory hirst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "shirt" when you mean: Hemd
- Write "shirts" when you mean: Plural des Substantivs shirt
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.