# Hel vs him

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### 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/hel-vs-him