he
The verdict
“he” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,293) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,293
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural, eles, elas
Corpus desk
Index PT-he · he · Portuguese
he · rank #7,293 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,293
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH gerado
Nearest frequency peer: gerado (-3 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “he”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- falência
falência
92,716 corpus weight
- farmácia
farmácia
92,715 corpus weight
- frequente
frequente
92,712 corpus weight
- gerado
gerado
92,711 corpus weight
- he
he
92,708 corpus weight
- incomodar
incomodar
92,705 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “he” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | he |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “he”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for he is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "hit", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #7,293 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural, eles, elas".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for he, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "hit", "hey", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is he, spelled H-E.
Definition
- 1caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural, eles, elas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how he appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sinä annoit heille leipää
Nota 1: Usado apenas para seres humanos.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.