harevshasseConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#40,584
“hare” frequency rank
#2,397
“hasse” frequency rank
42981
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hare hasse
Definition der Hase 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hassen

Letter map: hare vs hasse

Shared letters muted; letters that set hare and hasse apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
hare
5 ch
hasse

Role in the sentence - hare and hasse

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hare is anoun and hasseaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42981, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hare is recorded at frequency rank #40,584, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hasse is at rank #2,397, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈhasə].

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 42981, this pair ranks #1,432,341 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hare vs hasse

Shared letters: aeh. Private to "hare": r. Private to "hasse": s.

"hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hasse" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hareahre · harre · hhare · hrae
  • hasseahsse · hases · haße · hhasse · hsase

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hare" and "hasse" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hare" is a noun and "hasse" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "hare" or "hasse" show up more?
"hasse" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,397 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hasse" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,432,341 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hare" and "hasse" 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 #1,432,341 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