h vs him, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“h” is a symbol and “him” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,433
“h” frequency rank: #19,748
“him” frequency rank: 21181
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	h	him
Definition	símbolo de hora:	caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe

Letter map: h vs him

Shared letters muted; letters that set h and him apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

1 ch

3 ch

him

Part-of-speech tell for h / him

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: h is asymbol and himapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “h” sits inside “him”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21181, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

h is recorded at frequency rank #1,433, classified as asymbol. him is at rank #19,748, tagged as apron.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 21181, this pair ranks #49,156 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of h vs him

Shared letters: h. Private to "h": -. Private to "him": im.

"h" · 1 letters · shape C · "him" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "h" for "him" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "h" is a symbol and "him" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "h" or "him" show up more?

"h" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,433 in our Portuguese list, against #19,748 for "him". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "h" and "him". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "h" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "him" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #49,156 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"h" and "him" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "him vs hui". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #49,156 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.