haravshateConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#22,669
“hara” frequency rank
#12,905
“hate” frequency rank
35574
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hara hate
Definition onde: ódio

Letter map: hara vs hate

Shared letters muted; letters that set hara and hate apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
hara
4 ch
hate

Part-of-speech tell for hara / hate

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hara is apronoun and hateanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hara is recorded at frequency rank #22,669, classified as apron. hate is at rank #12,905, tagged as anoun, pronounced /heɪt/.

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 35574, this pair ranks #31,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hara vs hate

Shared letters: ah. Private to "hara": r. Private to "hate": et.

"hara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hate" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • haraahra · haar · harra · hhara · hraa
  • hateahte · haet · hatte · hhate · htae

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hara" and "hate" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hara" is a pronoun and "hate" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "hara" or "hate" show up more?
"hate" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,905 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.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "hara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hate" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hara" and "hate" 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 #31,459 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