há vs hon, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“há” is a verb and “hon” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#88
“há” frequency rank: #33,010
“hon” frequency rank: 33098
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	há	hon
Definition	terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo haver	ela

Letter map: há vs hon

Shared letters muted; letters that set há and hon apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch

há

3 ch

hon

Role in the sentence - há and hon

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: há is averb and honapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33098, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

há is recorded at frequency rank #88, classified as averb. hon is at rank #33,010, tagged as apron, pronounced [hoːn].

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 33098, this pair ranks #34,524 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of há vs hon

Shared letters: h. Private to "há": á. Private to "hon": no.

"há" · 2 letters · shape CV · "hon" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "há" and "hon" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "há" is a verb and "hon" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "há" or "hon" show up more?

"há" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #88 in our Portuguese list, against #33,010 for "hon". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "há" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hon" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #34,524 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"há" and "hon" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hon vs hui". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #34,524 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.