hawksvsmarioWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: hawks is a verb, mario is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#33,631
“hawks” frequency rank
#2,911
“mario” frequency rank
36542
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hawks mario
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hawk der Ehemann

Letter map: hawks vs mario

Shared letters muted; letters that set hawks and mario apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch
hawks
5 ch
mario

Role in the sentence - hawks and mario

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hawks is averb and marioanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36542, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hawks is recorded at frequency rank #33,631, classified as averb, 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 36542, this pair ranks #1,612,967 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hawks vs mario

Shared letters: a. Private to "hawks": hksw. Private to "mario": imor.

"hawks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "mario" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hawksahwks · hakws · hawkks · hawkss · hawsk · hawwks · hhawks · hwaks
  • marioamrio · mairo · maroi · marrio · mmario · mraio

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hawks" and "mario" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hawks" is a verb and "mario" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "hawks" or "mario" show up more?
"mario" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,911 in our German list, against #33,631 for "hawks". 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 "hawks" and "mario". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hawks" 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 #1,612,967 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hawks" and "mario" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hawks 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 #1,612,967 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