harm vs Hass, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#46,723
“harm” frequency rank: #2,598
“Hass” frequency rank: 49321
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	harm	Hass
Definition	körperlicher oder geistiger Schaden	sehr starke Abneigung gegen jemanden oder etwas, welche meist Aggression induziert

Letter map: harm vs Hass

Shared letters muted; letters that set harm and Hass apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

harm

4 ch

Hass

Corpus notes: harm and Hass

harm and Hass 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 49321, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

harm is recorded at frequency rank #46,723, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Hass is at rank #2,598, tagged as anoun, pronounced [has].

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 49321, this pair ranks #1,215,873 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of harm vs Hass

Shared letters: ah. Private to "harm": mr. Private to "Hass": s.

"harm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "Hass" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

harm ← ahrm · hamr · harmm · harrm · hharm · hram
Hass ← ahss · haß · hhass · hsas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "harm" for "Hass" 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.

Which is more common, "harm" or "Hass"?

"Hass" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,598 in our German list, against #46,723 for "harm". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "harm" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Hass" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,215,873 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"harm" and "Hass" 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 #1,215,873 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.