granvshazardWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: gran is a adjective, hazard is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“gran” is an adjective and “hazard” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,386
“gran” frequency rank
#31,602
“hazard” frequency rank
44988
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gran hazard
Definition groß, hochgewachsen Gefahrenmoment

Letter map: gran vs hazard

Shared letters muted; letters that set gran and hazard apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. gran runs 4 letters (CCVC) against hazard's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
gran
6 ch
hazard

Role in the sentence - gran and hazard

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gran is anadjective and hazardanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44988, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gran is recorded at frequency rank #13,386, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. hazard is at rank #31,602, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 44988, this pair ranks #1,368,149 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gran vs hazard

Shared letters: ar. Private to "gran": gn. Private to "hazard": dhz.

"gran" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "hazard" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • granggran · grann · grna · grran · rgan
  • hazardahzard · haazrd · hazadr · hazardd · hazarrd · hazrad · hazzard · hhazard

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gran" for "hazard" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gran" is an adjective and "hazard" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "gran" or "hazard" show up more?
"gran" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,386 in our German list, against #31,602 for "hazard". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "gran" and "hazard".

  • Full dictionary entry for "gran" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hazard" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,368,149 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gran" and "hazard" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hazard vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,368,149 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list