hajavsharaWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: haja is a verb, hara is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,327
“haja” frequency rank
#22,669
“hara” frequency rank
24996
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature haja hara
Definition primeira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo do verbo haver onde:

Letter map: haja vs hara

Shared letters muted; letters that set haja and hara apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. haja and hara follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
haja
4 ch
hara

Grammar separator: haja vs hara

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: haja is averb and haraapronoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - j in “haja” becomes r in “hara”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24996, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

haja is recorded at frequency rank #2,327, classified as averb. hara is at rank #22,669, tagged as apron.

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 24996, this pair ranks #44,422 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of haja vs hara

Shared letters: ah. Private to "haja": j. Private to "hara": r.

"haja" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • haja ← ahja · haaj · hajja · hhaja · hjaa
  • hara ← ahra · haar · harra · hhara · hraa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "haja" for "hara" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "haja" is a verb and "hara" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "haja" or "hara" show up more?
"haja" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,327 in our Portuguese list, against #22,669 for "hara". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "haja" and "hara". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "haja" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hara" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #44,422 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "haja" and "hara" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hamza vs hara". 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 #44,422 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