# hey vs him

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### hey
*intj · IPA /heɪ/ · frequency rank #787*
An exclamation to get attention.

### 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: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hey-vs-him