HevsHureTell them apart

Quick tell: He is a abbrev, Hure is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“He” is an abbrev and “Hure” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,534
“He” frequency rank
#8,882
“Hure” frequency rank
12416
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature He Hure
Definition Helium Frau, die für Geld sexuelle Handlungen vornimmt; Prostituierte

Letter map: He vs Hure

Shared letters muted; letters that set He and Hure apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch
He
4 ch
Hure

Part-of-speech tell for He / Hure

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: He is anabbrev and Hureanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12416, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

He is recorded at frequency rank #3,534, classified as anabbrev. Hure is at rank #8,882, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈhuːʁə].

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 12416, this pair ranks #1,964,325 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of He vs Hure

Shared letters: eh. Private to "He": -. Private to "Hure": ru.

"He" · 2 letters · shape CV  ·  "Hure" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Hurehhure · hrue · huer · hurre · uhre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "He" and "Hure" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "He" is an abbrev and "Hure" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "He" vs "Hure" - which ranks higher?
"He" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,534 in our German list, against #8,882 for "Hure". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "He" and "Hure". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "He" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Hure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,964,325 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "He" and "Hure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "haze vs Hure". 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 #1,964,325 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