hanavshareTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#36,380
“hana” frequency rank
#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
76964
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hana hare
Definition Personalpronomen der 3. Person Femininum Singular im Akkusativ: sie der Hase

Letter map: hana vs hare

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

4 ch
hana
4 ch
hare

Part-of-speech tell for hana / hare

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hana is apronoun and hareanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76964, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hana is recorded at frequency rank #36,380, classified as apron, pronounced [ˈhaːna]. 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 76964, this pair ranks #271,647 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hana vs hare

Shared letters: ah. Private to "hana": n. Private to "hare": er.

"hana" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hana ← ahna · hanna · hhana · hnaa
  • hare ← ahre · harre · hhare · hrae

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hana" and "hare" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hana" is a pronoun and "hare" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hana" vs "hare" - which ranks higher?
"hana" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,380 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.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hana" and "hare".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hana" 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 #271,647 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hana" 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 #271,647 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