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“hari” and “heart” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#42,378
“hari” frequency rank
#15,642
“heart” frequency rank
58020
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hari heart
Definition Fil. Cœur, organe vital.

Letter map: hari vs heart

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

4 ch
hari
5 ch
heart

Corpus notes: hari and heart

hari and heart are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58020, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hari is recorded at frequency rank #42,378, classified as anoun. heart is at rank #15,642, tagged as anoun, pronounced [hɑːt].

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 58020, this pair ranks #111,546 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hari vs heart

Shared letters: ahr. Private to "hari": i. Private to "heart": et.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hari ← ahri · hair · harri · hhari · hrai
  • heart ← ehart · haert · hearrt · heartt · heatr · herat · hheart

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hari" for "heart" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "hari" or "heart"?
"heart" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,642 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hari" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "heart" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #111,546 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hari" and "heart" 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 #111,546 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