# hail vs him

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### hail
*noun · IPA /heɪl/ · frequency rank #8,042*
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

### him
*pronoun · IPA /ˈhɪm/ · frequency rank #82*
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hail-vs-him