HavenvshohenWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Haven is a noun, hohen is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Haven” is a noun and “hohen” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,587
“Haven” frequency rank
#858
“hohen” frequency rank
26445
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Haven hohen
Definition Hafen Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs hoch

Letter map: Haven vs hohen

Shared letters muted; letters that set Haven and hohen apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Haven and hohen follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Haven
5 ch
hohen

Role in the sentence - Haven and hohen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Haven is anoun and hohenanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26445, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Haven is recorded at frequency rank #25,587, classified as anoun. hohen is at rank #858, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈhoːən].

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 26445, this pair ranks #1,817,991 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Haven vs hohen

Shared letters: ehn. Private to "Haven": av. Private to "hohen": o.

"Haven" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "hohen" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Haven ← ahven · haevn · havenn · havne · havven · hhaven · hvaen
  • hohen ← hhoen · hhohen · hoehn · hohenn · hohhen · hohne · ohhen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Haven" and "hohen" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Haven" is a noun and "hohen" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Haven" or "hohen" show up more?
"hohen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #858 in our German list, against #25,587 for "Haven". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Haven" and "hohen".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Haven" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hohen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,817,991 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Haven" and "hohen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Haven vs haze". 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 #1,817,991 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