het vs hom, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“het” is a determiner and “hom” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,178
“het” frequency rank: #43,252
“hom” frequency rank: 59430
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	het	hom
Definition	definiter (bestimmter) Artikel neutrum; das	die Leute, irgendwelche Leute

Letter map: het vs hom

Shared letters muted; letters that set het and hom apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch

het

3 ch

hom

Role in the sentence - het and hom

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: het is adeterminer and homapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59430, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

het is recorded at frequency rank #16,178, classified as adet, pronounced [(h)ət]. hom is at rank #43,252, tagged as apron, 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 59430, this pair ranks #824,800 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of het vs hom

Shared letters: h. Private to "het": et. Private to "hom": mo.

"het" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "hom" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "het" and "hom" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "het" is a determiner and "hom" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "het" or "hom"?

"het" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,178 in our German list, against #43,252 for "hom". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "het" vs "hom" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "het" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hom" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #824,800 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"het" and "hom" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hom vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #824,800 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.