harevsHeConfusable pair

Quick tell: hare is a noun, He is a symbol, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hare” is a noun and “He” is a symbol - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,876
“hare” frequency rank
#6,510
“He” frequency rank
43386
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hare He
Definition Variante de hart. Symbole de l’entreprise de fabrication d’avions allemande Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, fondée par Ernst Heinkel en 1922 et absorbée par Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW) en 1965.

Letter map: hare vs He

Shared letters muted; letters that set hare and He apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
hare
2 ch
He

Role in the sentence - hare and He

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hare is anoun and Heasymbol. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43386, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hare is recorded at frequency rank #36,876, classified as anoun, pronounced \aʁ\. He is at rank #6,510, tagged as asymbol.

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 43386, this pair ranks #218,442 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hare vs He

Shared letters: eh. Private to "hare": ar. Private to "He": -.

"hare" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "He" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hareahre · haer · harre · hhare · hrae

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hare" for "He" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hare" is a noun and "He" a symbol, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hare" vs "He" - which ranks higher?
"He" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,510 in our French list, against #36,876 for "hare". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "hare" and "He". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "He" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #218,442 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hare" and "He" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hare vs Hatem". 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 #218,442 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