Deutsch homophones
trennen/Tränen
2 "trennen, Tränen" spellings share pronunciation /ˈtʁɛnən/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
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.
- trennen ← rtennen · ternnen · trenen · trenenn · trennenn · trennne