haasvsHammTell them apart

Quick tell: haas is a noun, Hamm is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“haas” is a noun and “Hamm” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,797
“haas” frequency rank
#46,799
“Hamm” frequency rank
76596
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature haas Hamm
Definition Lièvre. Quartier de la ville de Luxembourg.

Letter map: haas vs Hamm

Shared letters muted; letters that set haas and Hamm apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. haas (CVVC) and Hamm (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
haas
4 ch
Hamm

Part-of-speech tell for haas / Hamm

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: haas is anoun and Hammaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

haas is recorded at frequency rank #29,797, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɦaːs\. Hamm is at rank #46,799, tagged as aname.

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 76596, this pair ranks #30,672 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of haas vs Hamm

Shared letters: ah. Private to "haas": s. Private to "Hamm": m.

"haas" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "Hamm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • haas ← ahas · haass · hasa · hhaas
  • Hamm ← ahmm · hhamm · hmam

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "haas" for "Hamm" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "haas" is a noun and "Hamm" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "haas" vs "Hamm" - which ranks higher?
"haas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,797 in our French list, against #46,799 for "Hamm". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "haas" vs "Hamm" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "haas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Hamm" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,672 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "haas" and "Hamm" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hamm vs hummm". 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 #30,672 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list