hei
[ˈej]
The verdict
“hei” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,992 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,992
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quinta letra del alfabeto hebreo
Corpus desk
Index ES-hei · hei · Spanish
hei · rank #66,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,992
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH height
Nearest frequency peer: height (+1 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “hei”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Hanói
Hanói
33,013 corpus weight
- happen
happen
33,012 corpus weight
- hei
hei
33,009 corpus weight
- height
height
33,008 corpus weight
- helecho
helecho
33,007 corpus weight
- Heracles
Heracles
33,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “hei” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hei |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈej] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hei” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hei is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,992 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈej]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quinta letra del alfabeto hebreo".
hei has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is hei, spelled H-E-I.
Definition
- 1Quinta letra del alfabeto hebreo
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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