harm vs hast, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#46,723
“harm” frequency rank: #165
“hast” frequency rank: 46888
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	harm	hast
Definition	körperlicher oder geistiger Schaden	2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs haben

Letter map: harm vs hast

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

4 ch

harm

4 ch

hast

Grammar separator: harm vs hast

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: harm is anoun and hastaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46888, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

harm is recorded at frequency rank #46,723, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hast is at rank #165, tagged as averb, pronounced [hast].

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 46888, this pair ranks #1,303,490 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of harm vs hast

Shared letters: ah. Private to "harm": mr. Private to "hast": st.

"harm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "hast" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

harm ← ahrm · hamr · harmm · harrm · hharm · hram
hast ← ahst · hastt · hhast · hsat

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "harm" and "hast" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "harm" is a noun and "hast" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

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

"hast" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #165 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.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "harm" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hast" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,303,490 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"harm" and "hast" 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 #1,303,490 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.