halde vs hide, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“halde” and “hide” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#39,984
“halde” frequency rank: #48,219
“hide” frequency rank: 88203
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	halde	hide
Definition	Abraumhalde	die Haut eines Tiers

Letter map: halde vs hide

Shared letters muted; letters that set halde and hide apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

halde

4 ch

hide

Pair insight - halde / hide

halde and hide are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88203, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

halde is recorded at frequency rank #39,984, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hide is at rank #48,219, tagged as anoun, pronounced [haɪd].

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 88203, this pair ranks #71,142 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of halde vs hide

Shared letters: deh. Private to "halde": al. Private to "hide": i.

"halde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "hide" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

halde ← ahlde · hadle · haldde · haled · hallde · hhalde · hlade
hide ← hdie · hhide · hidde · hied · ihde

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "halde" for "hide" ever safe?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

In ordinary German text, does "halde" or "hide" show up more?

"halde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,984 in our German list, against #48,219 for "hide". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "halde" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hide" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #71,142 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"halde" and "hide" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "haze vs hide". 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 #71,142 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.