harevshartemWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: hare is a noun, hartem is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
#30,108
“hartem” frequency rank
70692
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hare hartem
Definition der Hase Dativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hart

Letter map: hare vs hartem

Shared letters muted; letters that set hare and hartem apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
hare
6 ch
hartem

Part-of-speech tell for hare / hartem

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hare is anoun and hartemanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70692, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hare is recorded at frequency rank #40,584, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hartem is at rank #30,108, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈhaʁtəm].

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 70692, this pair ranks #438,751 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hare vs hartem

Shared letters: aehr. Private to "hare": -. Private to "hartem": mt.

"hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hartem" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hareahre · harre · hhare · hrae
  • hartemahrtem · haretm · harrtem · hartemm · hartme · harttem · hatrem · hhartem

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hare" for "hartem" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hare" is a noun and "hartem" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hare" vs "hartem" - which ranks higher?
"hartem" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,108 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hartem" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #438,751 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hare" and "hartem" 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 #438,751 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