Which to use
“he's” is an abbrev and “heut” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #29,620
- “he's” frequency rank
- #5,604
- “heut” frequency rank
- 35224
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | he's | heut |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | he is: er ist | an diesem Tage |
Letter map: he's vs heut
Shared letters muted; letters that set he's and heut apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. he's runs 3 letters (CVC) against heut's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for he's / heut
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: he's is anabbrev and heutanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35224, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
he's is recorded at frequency rank #29,620, classified as anabbrev, pronounced […]. heut is at rank #5,604, tagged as anadv, pronounced [hɔɪ̯t].
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 35224, this pair ranks #1,645,043 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of he's vs heut
Shared letters: eh. Private to "he's": s. Private to "heut": tu.
"he's" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "heut" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- heut ← ehut · hetu · heutt · hheut · huet
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "he's" for "heut" ever safe?
In ordinary German text, does "he's" or "heut" show up more?
What to do next
Pair "he's" vs "heut" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "he's" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "heut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,645,043 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "he's" and "heut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "he's 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 #1,645,043 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.