hagervshareConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#29,164
“hager” frequency rank
#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
69748
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hager hare
Definition dürr, mager, sehnig, knochig (und häufig groß gewachsen) der Hase

Letter map: hager vs hare

Shared letters muted; letters that set hager and hare apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. hager runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against hare's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
hager
4 ch
hare

Role in the sentence - hager and hare

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hager is anadjective and hareanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69748, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hager is recorded at frequency rank #29,164, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈhaːɡɐ]. 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 69748, this pair ranks #467,124 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hager vs hare

Shared letters: aehr. Private to "hager": g. Private to "hare": -.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hager ← ahger · haegr · hagerr · hagger · hagre · hgaer · hhager
  • hare ← ahre · harre · hhare · hrae

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hager" and "hare" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hager" is an adjective and "hare" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hager" or "hare"?
"hager" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,164 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hager" 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 #467,124 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hager" 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 #467,124 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