HajovsharmConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#44,664
“Hajo” frequency rank
#46,723
“harm” frequency rank
91387
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hajo harm
Definition männlicher Vorname körperlicher oder geistiger Schaden

Letter map: Hajo vs harm

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hajo and harm apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Hajo (CVCV) and harm (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
Hajo
4 ch
harm

Part-of-speech tell for Hajo / harm

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hajo is aname and harmanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91387, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hajo is recorded at frequency rank #44,664, classified as aname, pronounced [ˈhaːjo]. 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 91387, this pair ranks #38,314 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Hajo vs harm

Shared letters: ah. Private to "Hajo": jo. Private to "harm": mr.

"Hajo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "harm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Hajo ← ahjo · hajjo · haoj · hhajo · hjao
  • harm ← ahrm · hamr · harmm · harrm · hharm · hram

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Hajo" and "harm" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hajo" is a name and "harm" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Hajo" or "harm"?
"Hajo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,664 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Hajo" 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 #38,314 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Hajo" 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 #38,314 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