hom vs höre, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#43,252
“hom” frequency rank: #2,115
“höre” frequency rank: 45367
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	hom	höre
Definition	die Leute, irgendwelche Leute	1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hören

Letter map: hom vs höre

Shared letters muted; letters that set hom and höre apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. hom runs 3 letters (CVC) against höre's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch

hom

4 ch

höre

Role in the sentence - hom and höre

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hom is apronoun and höreaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45367, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hom is recorded at frequency rank #43,252, classified as apron, pronounced […]. höre is at rank #2,115, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈhøːʁə].

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 45367, this pair ranks #1,355,434 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hom vs höre

Shared letters: h. Private to "hom": mo. Private to "höre": erö.

"hom" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "höre" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Frequency check: "hom" vs "höre" - which ranks higher?

"höre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,115 in our German list, against #43,252 for "hom". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hom" and "höre".

Full dictionary entry for "hom" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "höre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,355,434 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"hom" and "höre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hom vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,355,434 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.