hello there
/həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/
"hello-there" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hello there” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonym of hello (“a greeting”).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hello there |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hello there” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for hello there is 11 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Synonym of hello (“a greeting”).".
hello there doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hello there, spelled H-E-L-L-O- -T-H-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of hello (“a greeting”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “hello there”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-E-L-L-O- -T-H-E-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.