hachvsharmWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: hach is a intj, harm is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hach” is an intj and “harm” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,115
“hach” frequency rank
#46,723
“harm” frequency rank
61838
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hach harm
Definition Ausruf der freudigen Überraschung körperlicher oder geistiger Schaden

Letter map: hach vs harm

Shared letters muted; letters that set hach and harm apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. hach and harm follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
hach
4 ch
harm

Grammar separator: hach vs harm

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hach is anintj and harmanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61838, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hach is recorded at frequency rank #15,115, classified as anintj, pronounced [hax]. harm is at rank #46,723, 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 61838, this pair ranks #734,783 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hach vs harm

Shared letters: ah. Private to "hach": c. Private to "harm": mr.

"hach" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "harm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hach ← ahch · hacch · hachh · hahc · hcah · hhach
  • harm ← ahrm · hamr · harmm · harrm · hharm · hram

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hach" for "harm" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hach" is an intj and "harm" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "hach" or "harm" show up more?
"hach" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,115 in our German list, against #46,723 for "harm". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "hach" vs "harm" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hach" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "harm" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #734,783 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hach" and "harm" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "harm 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 #734,783 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