# hau vs He

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### hau
*verb · IPA [haʊ̯] · frequency rank #7,064*
2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs hauen

### He
*abbrev · frequency rank #3,534*
Helium

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/hau-vs-he