harmvsHautTell them apart

Which to use

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

#46,723
“harm” frequency rank
#1,391
“Haut” frequency rank
48114
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature harm Haut
Definition körperlicher oder geistiger Schaden größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunterliegenden Gewebes, Atmung, Wärmeregulierung und anderem dient

Letter map: harm vs Haut

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

4 ch
harm
4 ch
Haut

Corpus notes: harm and Haut

harm and Haut 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 48114, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

harm is recorded at frequency rank #46,723, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Haut is at rank #1,391, tagged as anoun, pronounced [haʊ̯t].

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 48114, this pair ranks #1,260,331 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of harm vs Haut

Shared letters: ah. Private to "harm": mr. Private to "Haut": tu.

"harm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Haut" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • harmahrm · hamr · harmm · harrm · hharm · hram
  • Hautahut · hatu · hautt · hhaut · huat

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "harm" for "Haut" 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.
In ordinary German text, does "harm" or "Haut" show up more?
"Haut" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,391 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "harm" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Haut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,260,331 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "harm" and "Haut" 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 #1,260,331 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