Deutsch homophones
Wald/walt
"Wald" is a noun; "walt" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Wald" arrives as a noun, while "walt" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "Wald" keeps d, "walt" writes t at letter 4.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Wald, walt: alw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Wald
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory adlw · private d
walt
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory altw · private t
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Wald" when you mean: größere von Bäumen dicht bewachsene Fläche
- Write "walt" when you mean: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs walten
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.