Deutsch homophones

trennen/Tränen

2 "trennen, Tränen" spellings share pronunciation /ˈtʁɛnən/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

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Meaning separates the spellings

trennen, Tränen are held together only by pronunciation /ˈtʁɛnən/. With no grammar or frequency gap large enough to tip the choice, read each definition before you commit a spelling.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "tr" then splits - "trennen" (7 letters) vs "Tränen" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

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

  • trennen

    7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCVC

    Inventory enrt · no private letters vs siblings

  • Tränen

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCVC

    Inventory enrtä · private ä

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "trennen" when you mean: Personen oder Sachen auseinanderbringen
  • Write "Tränen" when you mean: Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Träne

Known mistypes of these spellings

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

  • trennenrtennen · ternnen · trenen · trenenn · trennenn · trennne

Each spelling

trennen

verb · /ˈtʁɛnən/ · #3,779 frequency

Personen oder Sachen auseinanderbringen

Tränen

/ˈtʁɛːnən/

Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Träne

Nearby German homophone groups

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

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