Hebe
/ˈɛ.bi/
The verdict
“Hebe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #37,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,351
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deusa grega da juventude, filha de Zeus (equivalente ao romano Júpiter) e Hera (romano Juno), copeira do Olimpo que fornecia néctar e ambrosia aos deuses, foi dada em casamento a Héracles (Hércules...
Corpus desk
Index PT-hebe · Hebe · Portuguese
Hebe · rank #37,351 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,351
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH hesitante
Nearest frequency peer: hesitante (+4 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “Hebe”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- geada
geada
62,662 corpus weight
- gregoriano
gregoriano
62,657 corpus weight
- Hebe
Hebe
62,650 corpus weight
- hesitante
hesitante
62,646 corpus weight
- Hut
Hut
62,638 corpus weight
- ineficácia
ineficácia
62,631 corpus weight
What this shows “Hebe” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | Hebe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛ.bi/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Hebe”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Hebe (IPA /ˈɛ.bi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,351 among 409 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hebe, with forms such as "ehbe", "hbee", and "hebbe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hey", "her", "hem", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Hebe, spelled H-E-B-E.
Definition
- 1deusa grega da juventude, filha de Zeus (equivalente ao romano Júpiter) e Hera (romano Juno), copeira do Olimpo que fornecia néctar e ambrosia aos deuses, foi dada em casamento a Héracles (Hércules) quando este é feito deus
- 2nome próprio feminino
- 3um dos grandes asteroides do Cinturão Principal nomeado 6 Hebe (sexto a ser descoberto, por Karl Ludwig Hencke em 1847) e quinto em tamanho, com símbolo astronômico (representando um cálice de vinho, sugerido a pedido de Hencke por Carl Friedrich Gauss), dotado de grande densidade e composto principalmente de ferro e zinco
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehbe
- hbee
- hebbe
- heeb
- hhebe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hebe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hebe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).