hey
/heɪ/
The verdict
“hey” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,007) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,007
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eh, oye, se emplea parar llamar la atención, o para expresar placer, o sorpresa, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hey · hey · Spanish
hey · rank #5,007 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,007
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hectáreas
Nearest frequency peer: hectáreas (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “hey”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Federico
Federico
94,997 corpus weight
- gimnasio
gimnasio
94,996 corpus weight
- hectáreas
hectáreas
94,995 corpus weight
- hey
hey
94,994 corpus weight
- hombro
hombro
94,993 corpus weight
- jodido
jodido
94,992 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “hey” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | hey |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /heɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “hey”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hey is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ho", "hi", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /heɪ/. Frequency #5,007 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Eh, oye, se emplea parar llamar la atención, o para expresar placer, o sorpresa, etc.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hey, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ho", "hi", "hoy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 hey, spelled H-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Eh, oye, se emplea parar llamar la atención, o para expresar placer, o sorpresa, etc.
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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