Deutsch homophones
fielen/vielen
"fielen" is a verb; "vielen" is an adjective - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "fielen" arrives as a verb, while "vielen" is an adjective. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "fielen" is 6 letters, "vielen" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across fielen, vielen: eiln. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
fielen
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory efiln · private f
vielen
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCVC
Inventory eilnv · private v
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "fielen" when you mean: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
- Write "vielen" when you mean: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs viel
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.