Which to use
“harm” and “heart” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,169
- “harm” frequency rank
- #491
- “heart” frequency rank
- 3660
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | harm | heart |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Physical injury; hurt; damage. | A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. |
Where the eye mixes harm and heart
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. harm (/hɑːm/) and heart (/hɑːt/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3660, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
harm is recorded at frequency rank #3,169, classified as anoun, pronounced /hɑːm/. heart is at rank #491, tagged as anoun, pronounced /hɑːt/.
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 3660, this pair ranks #521,409 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of harm vs heart
Shared letters: ahr. Private to "harm": m. Private to "heart": et.
"harm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "heart" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC