HausvshealsTell them apart

Quick tell: Haus is a name, heals is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#38,426
“Haus” frequency rank
#19,104
“heals” frequency rank
57530
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Haus heals
Definition A surname third-person singular simple present indicative of heal

Letter map: Haus vs heals

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

4 ch
Haus
5 ch
heals

Role in the sentence - Haus and heals

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Haus is aname and healsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Haus is recorded at frequency rank #38,426, classified as aname. heals is at rank #19,104, tagged as averb, pronounced /hiːlz/.

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 57530, this pair ranks #118,720 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Haus vs heals

Shared letters: ahs. Private to "Haus": u. Private to "heals": el.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Haus ← ahus · hasu · hauss · hhaus · huas
  • heals ← ehals · haels · healls · healss · heasl · helas · hheals

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Haus" for "heals" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Haus" is a name and "heals" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Haus" or "heals" show up more?
"heals" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,104 in our English list, against #38,426 for "Haus". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Haus" vs "heals" 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 "heals" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #118,720 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Haus" and "heals" 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 #118,720 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