haravsheartWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#22,669
“hara” frequency rank
#9,350
“heart” frequency rank
32019
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hara heart
Definition onde: coração

Letter map: hara vs heart

Shared letters muted; letters that set hara and heart apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. hara runs 4 letters (CVCV) against heart's 5 (CVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
hara
5 ch
heart

Part-of-speech tell for hara / heart

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hara is apronoun and heartanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32019, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hara is recorded at frequency rank #22,669, classified as apron. heart is at rank #9,350, tagged as anoun, pronounced /hɑɹt/.

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 32019, this pair ranks #35,905 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hara vs heart

Shared letters: ahr. Private to "hara": -. Private to "heart": et.

"hara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "heart" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hara ← ahra · haar · harra · hhara · hraa
  • heart ← ehart · haert · hearrt · heartt · heatr · herat · hheart

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hara" and "heart" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hara" is a pronoun and "heart" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "hara" or "heart" show up more?
"heart" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,350 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.

Useful next steps

Pair "hara" vs "heart" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "heart" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,905 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hara" and "heart" 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 #35,905 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