hanavsharmWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#36,380
“hana” frequency rank
#46,723
“harm” frequency rank
83103
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hana harm
Definition Personalpronomen der 3. Person Femininum Singular im Akkusativ: sie körperlicher oder geistiger Schaden

Letter map: hana vs harm

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

4 ch
hana
4 ch
harm

Part-of-speech tell for hana / harm

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hana is apronoun and harmanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83103, 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]. 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 83103, this pair ranks #145,595 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hana vs harm

Shared letters: ah. Private to "hana": n. Private to "harm": mr.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hana ← ahna · hanna · hhana · hnaa
  • harm ← ahrm · hamr · harmm · harrm · hharm · hram

Frequently Asked Questions

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

After this comparison

You've compared "hana" and "harm". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hana" 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 #145,595 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hana" 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 #145,595 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