Which to use
“hama” is a noun and “hana” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #44,666
- “hama” frequency rank
- #36,380
- “hana” frequency rank
- 81046
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hama | hana |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Eimer, Schüssel | Personalpronomen der 3. Person Femininum Singular im Akkusativ: sie |
Letter map: hama vs hana
Shared letters muted; letters that set hama and hana apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. hama and hana follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for hama / hana
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hama is anoun and hanaapronoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - m in “hama” becomes n in “hana”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81046, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hama is recorded at frequency rank #44,666, classified as anoun. hana is at rank #36,380, tagged as apron, pronounced [ˈhaːna].
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 81046, this pair ranks #183,353 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of hama vs hana
Shared letters: ah. Private to "hama": m. Private to "hana": n.
"hama" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "hana" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hama" and "hana".
- Full dictionary entry for "hama" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "hana" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #183,353 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "hama" and "hana" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hama vs haze". 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 #183,353 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.