hein
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,208
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hein is anPortugueseintj. It means: expressa incompreensão, não entendimento, simultaneamente comunicando àquele ao qual se dirige, que elucide o sentido, o nexo, que dê clarificação ou que melhor se fale ou expresse o que se acabou ... Pronounced /ẽɲ/. It ranks #3,208 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with hit and hey.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hein |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | /ẽɲ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for hein is 4 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽɲ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,208 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for hein, with forms such as "ehin", "heinn", and "heni". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hit", "hey", "his", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is hein, spelled H-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expressa incompreensão, não entendimento, simultaneamente comunicando àquele ao qual se dirige, que elucide o sentido, o nexo, que dê clarificação ou que melhor se fale ou expresse o que se acabou de comunicar
- 2expressa ao interlocutor o desejo reiterado de que seja dada uma resposta a uma pergunta já feita imediatamente antes ou num espaço de tempo relativamente curto previamente
- 3expressa ao interlocutor o desejo de que ele note como que pedindo opinião com relação ao dito mas retoricamente indicando-se que realmente, de fato (subtendidamente dando a entender que muito)
- 4expressa ao interlocutor o desejo de que ele note o dito mas objetivamente indicando-se e ressaltando que realmente, de fato
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehin,heinn,heni,hhein,hien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hein
Misspelling Variants of "hein"
Frequency rank: #3,208 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter H in our Portuguese index: