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“hasta” and “haste” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#23,681
“hasta” frequency rank
#20,313
“haste” frequency rank
43994
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hasta haste
Definition lança pedaço de pau ou ferro, delgado, levantado e direito, em que se embute ou encrava alguma coisa, como uma bandeira, uma lança, uma alabarda

Letter map: hasta vs haste

Shared letters muted; letters that set hasta and haste apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. hasta and haste follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
hasta
5 ch
haste

Spelling & dictionary notes on hasta vs haste

hasta and haste are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by a single letter - a in “hasta” becomes e in “haste”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43994, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hasta is recorded at frequency rank #23,681, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈaʃ.tɐ/. haste is at rank #20,313, 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 43994, this pair ranks #21,564 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hasta vs haste

Shared letters: ahst. Private to "hasta": -. Private to "haste": e.

"hasta" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "haste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hasta ← ahsta · hasat · hassta · hastta · hatsa · hhasta · hsata
  • haste ← ahste · haset · hasste · hastte · hatse · hhaste · hsate

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hasta" for "haste" ever safe?
No. They differ by a single letter - a in “hasta” becomes e in “haste”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "hasta" or "haste" show up more?
"haste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,313 in our Portuguese list, against #23,681 for "hasta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hasta" and "haste".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hasta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "haste" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,564 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hasta" and "haste" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hasta vs hóstia". 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 #21,564 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