# Habe vs had

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### Habe
*noun · IPA [ˈhaːbə] · frequency rank #59*
das, was man besitzt

### had
*verb · IPA [hæd] · frequency rank #15,906*
Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs have

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/habe-vs-had