HockvsholaTell them apart

Quick tell: Hock is a noun, hola is a phrase, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Hock” is a noun and “hola” is a phrase - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#35,238
“Hock” frequency rank
#48,229
“hola” frequency rank
83467
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hock hola
Definition geselliges Beisammensein hallo

Letter map: Hock vs hola

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hock and hola apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Hock (CVCC) and hola (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
Hock
4 ch
hola

Part-of-speech tell for Hock / hola

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hock is anoun and holaaphrase. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83467, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hock is recorded at frequency rank #35,238, classified as anoun, pronounced [hɔk]. hola is at rank #48,229, tagged as aphrase, 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 83467, this pair ranks #139,443 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Hock vs hola

Shared letters: ho. Private to "Hock": ck. Private to "hola": al.

"Hock" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "hola" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Hock ← hcok · hhock · hocck · hockk · hokc · ohck
  • hola ← hhola · hloa · hoal · holla · ohla

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Hock" and "hola" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hock" is a noun and "hola" a phrase, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Hock" or "hola" show up more?
"Hock" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,238 in our German list, against #48,229 for "hola". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Hock" vs "hola" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Hock" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hola" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #139,443 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Hock" and "hola" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hola 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 #139,443 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