habrévshombreWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: habré is a verb, hombre is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“habré” is a verb and “hombre” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,481
“habré” frequency rank
#214
“hombre” frequency rank
13695
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature habré hombre
Definition Primera persona del singular (yo) del futuro de indicativo de haber. Individuo de la especie humana, definido como mamífero primate dotado de inteligencia, que camina en posición vertical, posee manos prensiles y un cerebro voluminoso, y se comunica por medio de un lenguaje articulado.

Where the eye mixes habré and hombre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. habré runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against hombre's 6 (CVCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
habré
6 ch
hombre

Look-alike desk: habré vs hombre

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: habré is [aˈβ̞ɾe] while hombre is [ˈõmbɾe]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13695, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

habré is recorded at frequency rank #13,481, classified as averb, pronounced [aˈβ̞ɾe]. hombre is at rank #214, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈõmbɾe].

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 13695, this pair ranks #286,874 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of habré vs hombre

Shared letters: bhr. Private to "habré": aé. Private to "hombre": emo.

"habré" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "hombre" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hombre ← hhombre · hmobre · hobmre · hombbre · homber · hombrre · hommbre · homrbe

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "habré" and "hombre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "habré" is a verb and "hombre" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "habré" vs "hombre" - which ranks higher?
"hombre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #214 in our Spanish list, against #13,481 for "habré". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "habré" and "hombre" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "habré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hombre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #286,874 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "habré" and "hombre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habré vs hache". 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 #286,874 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list