Deutsch homophones
vage/Waage/wage
"vage" is an adjective; "Waage" 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: "vage" arrives as an adjective, while "Waage" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "vage" is 4 letters, "Waage" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "vage" is 4 letters, "wage" is 4; only the sound ties them.
- Shared stem "wa" then splits - "Waage" (5 letters) vs "wage" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across vage, Waage, wage: aeg. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
vage
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aegv · private v
Waage
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVVCV
Inventory aegw · private w
wage
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aegw · private w
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "vage" when you mean: schwer erkennbar oder vorstellbar, ungewiss
- Write "Waage" when you mean: Messgerät zur Bestimmung des Gewichtes
- Write "wage" when you mean: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wagen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.