Deutsch homophones
Celle/Zelle/zähle
"Celle" is a name; "Zelle" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "Celle" arrives as a name, while "Zelle" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "Celle" is 5 letters, "Zelle" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Celle" is 5 letters, "zähle" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Zelle" is 5 letters, "zähle" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Celle, Zelle, zähle: el. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Celle
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory cel · private c
Zelle
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory elz · private z
zähle
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory ehlzä · private hzä
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Celle" when you mean: eine Stadt in Niedersachsen, Deutschland
- Write "Zelle" when you mean: kleinste lebende Einheit eines Lebewesens
- Write "zähle" when you mean: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zählen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.