harivshasWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,378
“hari” frequency rank
#12,589
“has” frequency rank
54967
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hari has
Definition Fil. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de have.

Letter map: hari vs has

Shared letters muted; letters that set hari and has apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
hari
3 ch
has

Grammar separator: hari vs has

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hari is anoun and hasaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54967, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hari is recorded at frequency rank #42,378, classified as anoun. has is at rank #12,589, tagged as averb, pronounced \hæz\.

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 54967, this pair ranks #130,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hari vs has

Shared letters: ah. Private to "hari": ir. Private to "has": s.

"hari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "has" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hariahri · hair · harri · hhari · hrai

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hari" for "has" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hari" is a noun and "has" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hari" vs "has" - which ranks higher?
"has" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,589 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.

What to do next

You've compared "hari" and "has". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hari" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "has" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #130,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hari" and "has" 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 #130,479 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