hrvshurtWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#25,352
“hr” frequency rank
#47,383
“hurt” frequency rank
72735
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hr hurt
Definition Variante de hrr. Blesser, endolorir, faire du mal.

Letter map: hr vs hurt

Shared letters muted; letters that set hr and hurt apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch
hr
4 ch
hurt

Part-of-speech tell for hr / hurt

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hr is anonomatopoeia and hurtaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72735, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hr is recorded at frequency rank #25,352, classified as anonomatopoeia. 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 72735, this pair ranks #42,966 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hr vs hurt

Shared letters: hr. Private to "hr": -. Private to "hurt": tu.

"hr" · 2 letters · shape CC  ·  "hurt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hurthhurt · hrut · hurrt · hurtt · hutr · uhrt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hr" and "hurt" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hr" is an onomatopoeia and "hurt" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "hr" or "hurt" show up more?
"hr" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,352 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.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hr" and "hurt".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hr" 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 #42,966 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hr" 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 #42,966 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