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het

/hɛt/noun, adjective, verb

het is spelled H-E-T: 3 letters. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, het means “A heterosexual person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of het is hets.

How many letters and syllables are in het?

Letters3: H-E-T
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is het?

Het appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce het?

  • /hɛt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-het.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with het?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as het.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: the, eth.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of het

  • hets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • more het comparative
  • most het superlative
  • hetting participle, present
  • hetted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does het mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    slangA heterosexual person.

  2. 2

    slangFan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.

  3. 3

    dialectal form of heat (“hotness”) (a form of heat)

  4. 4

    Clipping of heterozygous.

    For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.

  5. 5

    Alternative form of heth (Semitic letter).

adjective

  1. 1

    slangHeterosexual.

  2. 2

    Heated.

  3. 3

    Clipping of heterozygous.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of heat (a form of heat)

  2. 2

    dialectal form of heat (“to make hot”) (a form of heat)

noun

as HET
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of Hall effect thruster.

noun

as Het
  1. 1

    Any of a number of nomadic groups from the Argentine Pampas and Patagonia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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