habervshareTell them apart

Quick tell: haber is a verb, hare is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“haber” is a verb and “hare” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,088
“haber” frequency rank
#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
71672
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature haber hare
Definition 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs habern der Hase

Letter map: haber vs hare

Shared letters muted; letters that set haber and hare apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
haber
4 ch
hare

Part-of-speech tell for haber / hare

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: haber is averb and hareanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71672, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

haber is recorded at frequency rank #31,088, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈhaːbɐ]. hare is at rank #40,584, 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 71672, this pair ranks #410,184 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of haber vs hare

Shared letters: aehr. Private to "haber": b. Private to "hare": -.

"haber" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • haberahber · habber · haberr · habre · haebr · hbaer · hhaber
  • hareahre · harre · hhare · hrae

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "haber" and "hare" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "haber" is a verb and "hare" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "haber" or "hare"?
"haber" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,088 in our German list, against #40,584 for "hare". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "haber" and "hare". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "haber" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hare" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #410,184 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "haber" and "hare" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hare 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 #410,184 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