Deutsch homophones
vos/wo
"vos" is an adjective; "wo" is an adverb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "vos" arrives as an adjective, while "wo" is an adverb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "vos" is 3 letters, "wo" is 2; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across vos, wo: o. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
vos
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory osv · private sv
wo
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory ow · private w
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "vos" when you mean: Eure, Ihre
- Write "wo" when you mean: an welchem Ort, an welcher Stelle