HausvsheadsConfusable pair

Quick tell: Haus is a name, heads is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Haus” is a name and “heads” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,426
“Haus” frequency rank
#2,159
“heads” frequency rank
40585
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Haus heads
Definition A surname A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.

Letter map: Haus vs heads

Shared letters muted; letters that set Haus and heads apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Haus runs 4 letters (CVVC) against heads's 5 (CVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Haus
5 ch
heads

Role in the sentence - Haus and heads

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Haus is aname and headsanintj. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40585, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Haus is recorded at frequency rank #38,426, classified as aname. heads is at rank #2,159, tagged as anintj, pronounced /hɛdz/.

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 40585, this pair ranks #266,225 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Haus vs heads

Shared letters: ahs. Private to "Haus": u. Private to "heads": de.

"Haus" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "heads" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Haus ← ahus · hasu · hauss · hhaus · huas
  • heads ← ehads · haeds · headds · headss · heasd · hedas · hheads

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Haus" for "heads" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Haus" is a name and "heads" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Haus" vs "heads" - which ranks higher?
"heads" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,159 in our English list, against #38,426 for "Haus". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "Haus" vs "heads" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Haus" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "heads" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #266,225 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Haus" and "heads" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Haus vs hocus". 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 #266,225 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