homevshseWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: home is a noun, hse is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“home” is a noun and “hse” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#149
“home” frequency rank
#36,606
“hse” frequency rank
36755
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature home hse
Definition A dwelling. A gender-neutral pronoun.

Letter map: home vs hse

Shared letters muted; letters that set home and hse apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
home
3 ch
hse

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: home is anoun and hseapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36755, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

home is recorded at frequency rank #149, classified as anoun, pronounced /həʊm/. hse is at rank #36,606, tagged as apron.

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 36755, this pair ranks #300,445 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of home vs hse

Shared letters: eh. Private to "home": mo. Private to "hse": s.

"home" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hse" · 3 letters · shape CCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • homehhome · hmoe · hoem · ohme

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "home" and "hse" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "home" is a noun and "hse" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "home" or "hse"?
"home" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #149 in our English list, against #36,606 for "hse". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list