Deutsch homophones

wahre/Ware

"wahre" is an adjective; "Ware" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

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Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "wahre" arrives as an adjective, while "Ware" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "wa" then splits - "wahre" (5 letters) vs "Ware" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across wahre, Ware: aerw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • wahre

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV

    Inventory aehrw · private h

  • Ware

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV

    Inventory aerw · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "wahre" when you mean: Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wahr
  • Write "Ware" when you mean: durch Handel oder Tausch erwerbbares Gut

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • wahreawhre · waher · wahhre · wahrre · warhe · whare
  • Wareawre · waer · warre · wrae · wware

Each spelling

wahre

adjective · /ˈvaːʁə/ · #2,274 frequency

Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wahr

Ware

noun · /ˈvaːʁə/ · #4,169 frequency

durch Handel oder Tausch erwerbbares Gut

Nearby German homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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