hamavshariTell them apart

Quick tell: hama is a adjective, hari is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hama” is an adjective and “hari” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,985
“hama” frequency rank
#42,378
“hari” frequency rank
74363
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hama hari
Definition Flou, incertain, inconcevable. Fil.

Letter map: hama vs hari

Shared letters muted; letters that set hama and hari apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. hama and hari follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
hama
4 ch
hari

Part-of-speech tell for hama / hari

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hama is anadjective and harianoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74363, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hama is recorded at frequency rank #31,985, classified as anadj, pronounced \ˈhɑ.mɑ\. hari is at rank #42,378, tagged as anoun.

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 74363, this pair ranks #37,397 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hama vs hari

Shared letters: ah. Private to "hama": m. Private to "hari": ir.

"hama" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hama ← ahma · haam · hamma · hhama · hmaa
  • hari ← ahri · hair · harri · hhari · hrai

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hama" for "hari" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hama" is an adjective and "hari" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "hama" or "hari" show up more?
"hama" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,985 in our French list, against #42,378 for "hari". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "hama" vs "hari" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hama" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hari" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #37,397 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hama" and "hari" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hari vs hash". 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 #37,397 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