harevshartesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
#12,731
“hartes” frequency rank
53315
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hare hartes
Definition der Hase Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs hart

Letter map: hare vs hartes

Shared letters muted; letters that set hare and hartes apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. hare runs 4 letters (CVCV) against hartes's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
hare
6 ch
hartes

Part-of-speech tell for hare / hartes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hare is anoun and hartesanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53315, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hare is recorded at frequency rank #40,584, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hartes is at rank #12,731, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈhaʁtəs].

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 53315, this pair ranks #1,062,842 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hare vs hartes

Shared letters: aehr. Private to "hare": -. Private to "hartes": st.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hare ← ahre · harre · hhare · hrae
  • hartes ← ahrtes · harets · harrtes · hartess · hartse · harttes · hatres · hhartes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hare" and "hartes" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hare" is a noun and "hartes" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hare" vs "hartes" - which ranks higher?
"hartes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,731 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

Pair "hare" vs "hartes" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hartes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,062,842 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hare" and "hartes" 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 #1,062,842 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