Deutsch homophones
vagen/Wagen
"vagen" is an adjective; "Wagen" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "vagen" arrives as an adjective, while "Wagen" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "vagen" is 5 letters, "Wagen" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across vagen, Wagen: aegn. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
vagen
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aegnv · private v
Wagen
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory aegnw · private w
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "vagen" when you mean: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs vage
- Write "Wagen" when you mean: einachsiges oder mehrachsiges Fahrzeug zum Transport beliebiger Dinge, mit Muskelkraft bewegt
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.