The word "harde" is spelled with five letters, consisting of the phonemes /h/, /ɑː/, /r/, /d/ and /e/. The IPA phonetic transcription shows that the first consonant sound is pronounced as the voiceless glottal fricative /h/. The second sound is a long vowel, pronounced as /ɑː/. The third is the alveolar flap or tap, pronounced as /r/. The fourth sound is the voiced dental plosive /d/, and the last sound is the unstressed schwa vowel, pronounced as /ə/.