Hand vs hare, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#432
“Hand” frequency rank: #40,584
“hare” frequency rank: 41016
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Hand	hare
Definition	Greiforgan bei Menschen und Affen	der Hase

Letter map: Hand vs hare

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hand and hare apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

Hand

4 ch

hare

Corpus notes: Hand and hare

Hand and hare 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41016, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hand is recorded at frequency rank #432, classified as anoun, pronounced [hant]. 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 41016, this pair ranks #1,491,723 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Hand vs hare

Shared letters: ah. Private to "Hand": dn. Private to "hare": er.

"Hand" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

Hand ← ahnd · hadn · handd · hannd · hhand · hnad
hare ← ahre · harre · hhare · hrae

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Hand" for "hare" ever safe?

No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "Hand" vs "hare" - which ranks higher?

"Hand" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #432 in our German list, against #40,584 for "hare". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "Hand" 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 #1,491,723 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Hand" 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 #1,491,723 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.