hae
[ˈae]
The verdict
“hae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,157) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,157
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante obsoleta de ah.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hae · hae · Spanish
hae · rank #33,157 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,157
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hablarse
Nearest frequency peer: hablarse (-2 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hae”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gueto
gueto
66,849 corpus weight
- Góngora
Góngora
66,848 corpus weight
- hablarse
hablarse
66,846 corpus weight
- hae
hae
66,844 corpus weight
- hana
hana
66,842 corpus weight
- hogueras
hogueras
66,840 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hae” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hae |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈae] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “hae” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hae is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "Ho", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈae]. Frequency #33,157 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Variante obsoleta de ah.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hae, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "Ho", "hi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is hae, spelled H-A-E.
Definition
- 1Variante obsoleta de ah.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "hae" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "he". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #33,157 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.