Deutsch homophones
tout/tu/two
"tout" is an adjective; "tu" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "tout" arrives as an adjective, while "tu" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "tout" is 4 letters, "tu" is 2; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "tout" is 4 letters, "two" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "tu" is 2 letters, "two" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across tout, tu, two: t. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
tout
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory otu · private ou
tu
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory tu · private u
two
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCV
Inventory otw · private ow
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "tout" when you mean: all
- Write "tu" when you mean: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tun
- Write "two" when you mean: zwei
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- tout ← otut · totu · toutt · ttout · tuot