hartvshoraWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: hart is a adjective, hora is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hart” is an adjective and “hora” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,299
“hart” frequency rank
#232
“hora” frequency rank
17531
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hart hora
Definition duro, rígido período de sessenta minutos de tempo; unidade de medida de tempo

Where the eye mixes hart and hora

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
hart
4 ch
hora

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: hart is /hart while hora is ['ɒ.rɐ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17531, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hart is recorded at frequency rank #17,299, classified as anadj, pronounced /hart. hora is at rank #232, tagged as anoun, pronounced ['ɒ.rɐ].

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 17531, this pair ranks #53,693 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hart vs hora

Shared letters: ahr. Private to "hart": t. Private to "hora": o.

"hart" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "hora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hartahrt · harrt · hartt · hatr · hhart · hrat
  • horahhora · hoar · horra · hroa · ohra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hart" and "hora" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hart" is an adjective and "hora" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hart" or "hora"?
"hora" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #232 in our Portuguese list, against #17,299 for "hart". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "hart" and "hora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hart" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hora" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #53,693 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hart" and "hora" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hart vs Hut". 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

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list