# him vs HIV

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### HIV
*noun · IPA /ˌeɪtʃˌaɪˈviː/ · frequency rank #5,421*
Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.

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