he's
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,629
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
he's is aSpanishcontraction. It means: Contracción de he y is: "él es" o "él está". Pronounced /hiːz/. Often confused with hey and her.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | he's |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /hiːz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for he's is 4 letters long, classified as acontraction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /hiːz/. Corpus data places it at rank #43,629 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for he's, with forms such as "eh's", "h'es", and "he'ss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hey", "her", "his", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is he's, spelled H-E-'-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contracción de he y is: "él es" o "él está".
- 2Contracción de he y has: "él tiene" o "él ha" (en las formas compuestas).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eh's,h'es,he'ss,hes',hhe's
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for he's
Misspelling Variants of "he's"
Frequency rank: #43,629 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter H in our Spanish index: