harmonyvsmarioTell them apart

Which to use

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

#34,716
“harmony” frequency rank
#2,911
“mario” frequency rank
37627
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature harmony mario
Definition Harmonie, Übereinstimmung, Eintracht der Ehemann

Letter map: harmony vs mario

Shared letters muted; letters that set harmony and mario apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

7 ch
harmony
5 ch
mario

Pair insight - harmony / mario

harmony and mario 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 differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37627, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

harmony is recorded at frequency rank #34,716, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. mario is at rank #2,911, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

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 37627, this pair ranks #1,585,210 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of harmony vs mario

Shared letters: amor. Private to "harmony": hny. Private to "mario": i.

"harmony" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "mario" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • harmonyahrmony · hamrony · harmmony · harmnoy · harmonny · harmonyy · harmoyn · haromny
  • marioamrio · mairo · maroi · marrio · mmario · mraio

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "harmony" for "mario" ever safe?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "harmony" vs "mario" - which ranks higher?
"mario" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,911 in our German list, against #34,716 for "harmony". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "harmony" and "mario". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "harmony" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mario" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,585,210 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "harmony" and "mario" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "harmony 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 #1,585,210 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