haravshardWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#22,669
“hara” frequency rank
#7,418
“hard” frequency rank
30087
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hara hard
Definition onde: condição de atuação difícil, dura

Letter map: hara vs hard

Shared letters muted; letters that set hara and hard apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
hara
4 ch
hard

Grammar separator: hara vs hard

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hara is apronoun and hardanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “hara” becomes d in “hard”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30087, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hara is recorded at frequency rank #22,669, classified as apron. hard is at rank #7,418, tagged as anoun.

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 30087, this pair ranks #38,370 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hara vs hard

Shared letters: ahr. Private to "hara": -. Private to "hard": d.

"hara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hard" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • haraahra · haar · harra · hhara · hraa
  • hardahrd · hadr · hardd · harrd · hhard · hrad

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hara" and "hard" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hara" is a pronoun and "hard" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hara" or "hard"?
"hard" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,418 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 "hara" and "hard". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hard" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,370 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hara" and "hard" 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 #38,370 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