Deutsch homophones
fis/Phi/Vieh
"fis" is a verb; "Phi" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "fis" arrives as a verb, while "Phi" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "fis" is 3 letters, "Phi" is 3; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "fis" is 3 letters, "Vieh" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Phi" is 3 letters, "Vieh" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across fis, Phi, Vieh: i. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
fis
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory fis · private fs
Phi
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCV
Inventory hip · private hp
Vieh
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ehiv · private ehv
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "fis" when you mean: 1. Person Singulra Indikativ historisches Perfekt Aktiv des Verbs faire
- Write "Phi" when you mean: einundzwanzigster Buchstabe des griechischen Alphabets
- Write "Vieh" when you mean: Gesamtheit aller Nutztiere, die in der Landwirtschaft gehalten werden
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Vieh ← iveh · veih · viehh · vihe · vvieh