vsHutWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#88
“há” frequency rank
#37,363
“Hut” frequency rank
37451
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hut
Definition terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo haver chapéu

Letter map: há vs Hut

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

2 ch
há
3 ch
Hut

Part-of-speech tell for há / Hut

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: is averb and Hutanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37451, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

is recorded at frequency rank #88, classified as averb. Hut is at rank #37,363, tagged as anoun, pronounced /huːt/ ouvir^(fonte ?).

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 37451, this pair ranks #29,163 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of há vs Hut

Shared letters: h. Private to "há": á. Private to "Hut": tu.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "há" for "Hut" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "há" is a verb and "Hut" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "há" vs "Hut" - which ranks higher?
"há" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #88 in our Portuguese list, against #37,363 for "Hut". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "há" vs "Hut" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "há" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Hut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,163 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "há" and "Hut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hui vs Hut". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #29,163 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list