# heil vs Hel

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### heil
*verb · IPA /haɪl/ · frequency rank #38,882*
To greet with a Sieg Heil.

### Hel
*name · frequency rank #30,823*
The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heil-vs-hel