hello there
/həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/
"hello-there" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hello there” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of hello (“a greeting”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-hello-there · hello there · English
hello there · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “hello there” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hello there is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /həˈləʊ̯ ðɛə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hello there appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Hello there. General Grievous: General Kenobi! You are a bold one.
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.