harivshurtTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#42,378
“hari” frequency rank
#47,383
“hurt” frequency rank
89761
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hari hurt
Definition Fil. Blesser, endolorir, faire du mal.

Letter map: hari vs hurt

Shared letters muted; letters that set hari and hurt apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. hari (CVCV) and hurt (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
hari
4 ch
hurt

Role in the sentence - hari and hurt

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hari is anoun and hurtaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89761, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hari is recorded at frequency rank #42,378, classified as anoun. hurt is at rank #47,383, tagged as averb, pronounced \ˈhɝt\.

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 89761, this pair ranks #5,460 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hari vs hurt

Shared letters: hr. Private to "hari": ai. Private to "hurt": tu.

"hari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hurt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hari ← ahri · hair · harri · hhari · hrai
  • hurt ← hhurt · hrut · hurrt · hurtt · hutr · uhrt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hari" for "hurt" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hari" is a noun and "hurt" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "hari" or "hurt" show up more?
"hari" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #42,378 in our French list, against #47,383 for "hurt". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "hari" vs "hurt" 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 "hurt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,460 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hari" and "hurt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "heurt vs hurt". 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 #5,460 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