hey
/ˈhɛi/
The verdict
“hey” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,190) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,190
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - oi; olá (usada como saudação)
Corpus desk
Index PT-hey · hey · Portuguese
hey · rank #6,190 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,190
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH ideologia
Nearest frequency peer: ideologia (+2 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 “hey”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- genética
genética
93,816 corpus weight
- gesto
gesto
93,815 corpus weight
- hey
hey
93,811 corpus weight
- ideologia
ideologia
93,809 corpus weight
- Igor
Igor
93,808 corpus weight
- inauguração
inauguração
93,806 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “hey” 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 | hey |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈhɛi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hey”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hey is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "hit", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈhɛi/. Frequency #6,190 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "oi; olá (usada como saudação)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hey, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "hit", "hot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is hey, spelled H-E-Y.
Definition
- 1oi; olá (usada como saudação)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hey! Hvussu gongur?
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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