him
/ˈhɪm/
The verdict
“him” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,444) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,444
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Él.
Corpus desk
Index ES-him · him · Spanish
him · rank #23,444 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,444
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH heredar
Nearest frequency peer: heredar (-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 “him”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- hate
hate
76,560 corpus weight
- Heras
Heras
76,559 corpus weight
- heredar
heredar
76,558 corpus weight
- him
him
76,557 corpus weight
- hoz
hoz
76,555 corpus weight
- huertos
huertos
76,554 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “him” 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 | him |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “him”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for him is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ho", "hoy", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈhɪm/. Frequency #23,444 among 1,569 “H” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
him has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ho", "hoy", "hot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is him, spelled H-I-M.
Definition
- 1Él.
- 2Le.
- 3Lo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how him appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It's for him. "Es para él".
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).