hatevsHDTVTell them apart

Quick tell: hate is a noun, HDTV is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#12,905
“hate” frequency rank
#35,178
“HDTV” frequency rank
48083
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hate HDTV
Definition ódio high-definition television: TVAD (televisão de alta definição)

Where the eye mixes hate and HDTV

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

4 ch
hate
4 ch
HDTV

Look-alike desk: hate vs HDTV

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: hate is /heɪt/ while HDTV is /ˌeɪtʃˌdiːˌtiːˈviː/. 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 (noun vs abbrev), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48083, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hate is recorded at frequency rank #12,905, classified as anoun, pronounced /heɪt/. HDTV is at rank #35,178, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced /ˌeɪtʃˌdiːˌtiːˈviː/.

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 48083, this pair ranks #17,126 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hate vs HDTV

Shared letters: ht. Private to "hate": ae. Private to "HDTV": dv.

"hate" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "HDTV" · 4 letters · shape CCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hateahte · haet · hatte · hhate · htae
  • HDTVdhtv · hddtv · hdttv · hdtvv · hdvt · hhdtv · htdv

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hate" and "HDTV" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hate" is a noun and "HDTV" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "hate" or "HDTV" show up more?
"hate" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,905 in our Portuguese list, against #35,178 for "HDTV". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "hate" and "HDTV" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hate" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "HDTV" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #17,126 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hate" and "HDTV" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "HDTV 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

Confusion rank #17,126 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