# held vs Helga

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### held
*verb · IPA /ˈhɛld/ · frequency rank #572*
simple past and past participle of hold

### Helga
*name · IPA /ˈhɛlɡə/ · frequency rank #36,599*
A female given name from Old Norse occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

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