HakvshazyWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Hak is a name, hazy is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Hak” is a name and “hazy” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,790
“Hak” frequency rank
#24,184
“hazy” frequency rank
72974
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hak hazy
Definition A surname. Thick or obscured with haze.

Letter map: Hak vs hazy

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hak and hazy apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Hak runs 3 letters (CVC) against hazy's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
Hak
4 ch
hazy

Role in the sentence - Hak and hazy

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hak is aname and hazyanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72974, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hak is recorded at frequency rank #48,790, classified as aname. hazy is at rank #24,184, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈheɪzi/.

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 72974, this pair ranks #41,205 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Hak vs hazy

Shared letters: ah. Private to "Hak": k. Private to "hazy": yz.

"Hak" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "hazy" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hazy ← ahzy · hayz · hazyy · hazzy · hhazy · hzay

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Hak" for "hazy" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hak" is a name and "hazy" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Hak" vs "hazy" - which ranks higher?
"hazy" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,184 in our English list, against #48,790 for "Hak". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Hak" vs "hazy" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Hak" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hazy" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,205 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Hak" and "hazy" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hak vs hoke". 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 #41,205 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list