Deutsch homophones
Wehr/wer
"Wehr" is a noun; "wer" is a pronoun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Wehr" arrives as a noun, while "wer" is a pronoun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "we" then splits - "Wehr" (4 letters) vs "wer" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Wehr, wer: erw. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Wehr
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ehrw · private h
wer
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory erw · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Wehr" when you mean: Anlage zur Stauung von Wasser, die quer durch ein fließendes Gewässer verläuft
- Write "wer" when you mean: fragt nach einer Person oder mehreren Personen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- Wehr ← ewhr · wehhr · wehrr · werh · wher · wwehr