Which to use
“haze” and “hole” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,723
- “haze” frequency rank
- #2,206
- “hole” frequency rank
- 18929
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | haze | hole |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.) | A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure. |
Where the eye mixes haze and hole
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. haze (/heɪz/) and hole (/həʊl/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18929, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
haze is recorded at frequency rank #16,723, classified as anoun, pronounced /heɪz/. hole is at rank #2,206, tagged as anoun, pronounced /həʊl/.
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 18929, this pair ranks #441,634 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of haze vs hole
Shared letters: eh. Private to "haze": az. Private to "hole": lo.
"haze" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "hole" · 4 letters · shape CVCV