harivsheardConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#42,378
“hari” frequency rank
#38,336
“heard” frequency rank
80714
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hari heard
Definition Fil. Prétérit de hear.

Letter map: hari vs heard

Shared letters muted; letters that set hari and heard apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. hari runs 4 letters (CVCV) against heard's 5 (CVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
hari
5 ch
heard

Part-of-speech tell for hari / heard

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hari is anoun and heardaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80714, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hari is recorded at frequency rank #42,378, classified as anoun. heard is at rank #38,336, tagged as averb, pronounced \ˈhɝd\.

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 80714, this pair ranks #20,328 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hari vs heard

Shared letters: ahr. Private to "hari": i. Private to "heard": de.

"hari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "heard" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hari ← ahri · hair · harri · hhari · hrai
  • heard ← ehard · haerd · headr · heardd · hearrd · herad · hheard

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hari" and "heard" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hari" is a noun and "heard" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hari" vs "heard" - which ranks higher?
"heard" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,336 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hari" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "heard" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,328 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hari" and "heard" 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 #20,328 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