Deutsch homophones
Thun/tun
"Thun" is a name; "tun" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Thun" arrives as a name, while "tun" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Thun" is 4 letters, "tun" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Thun, tun: ntu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Thun
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory hntu · private h
tun
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ntu · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Thun" when you mean: eine Stadt in der Schweiz
- Write "tun" when you mean: eine Handlung ausführen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Thun ← htun · thhun · thnu · thunn · tthun · tuhn