him

pron

The verdict

“him” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,748) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#19,748
frequency rank, Portuguese
409
“H” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe

Corpus desk

Index PT-him · him · Portuguese

him · rank #19,748 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,748
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 409
  • PHOTO-FINISH hipoteca

Nearest frequency peer: hipoteca (+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.

Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “him”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “him” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

him vs ho
33% similar
him vs hit
67% similar
him vs hot
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for him
PropertyValue
Headwordhim
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#19,748
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “him”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.himcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “hipoteca” (#19,749), “ham” (#19,746), “honorário” (#19,752). Entre 409 lemas com “H”, “him” fica em #19,748. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for him is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "hit", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #19,748 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for him, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "hit", "hot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is him, spelled H-I-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how him appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. It's for him.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "him"?
"him" is spelled H-I-M.
What does "him" mean?
As a pronoun, "him" means: caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe
What words are commonly confused with "him"?
"him" is commonly confused with "ho", "hit", "hot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "him" come from?
"him" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "him", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list