Deutsch homophones

starrt/Start

"starrt" is a verb; "Start" is a noun - 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: "starrt" arrives as a verb, while "Start" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "star" then splits - "starrt" (6 letters) vs "Start" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • starrt

    6 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCCC

    Inventory arst · no private letters vs siblings

  • Start

    5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVCC

    Inventory arst · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "starrt" when you mean: 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs starren
  • Write "Start" when you mean: absichtsvoller Beginn einer Tätigkeit/eines Projekts

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • starrtsatrrt · sstarrt · starrtt · startr · strart · sttarrt
  • Startsatrt · sstart · startt · statr · strat · sttart

Each spelling

starrt

verb · /ʃtaʁt/ · #24,135 frequency

2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs starren

Start

noun · /ʃtaʁt/ · #1,094 frequency

absichtsvoller Beginn einer Tätigkeit/eines Projekts

Nearby German homophone groups

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