há vs him, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#88
“há” frequency rank: #19,748
“him” frequency rank: 19836
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	há	him
Definition	terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo haver	caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe

Letter map: há vs him

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

2 ch

há

3 ch

him

Role in the sentence - há and him

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: há is averb and himapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19836, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

há is recorded at frequency rank #88, classified as averb. 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 19836, this pair ranks #50,803 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of há vs him

Shared letters: h. Private to "há": á. Private to "him": im.

"há" · 2 letters · shape CV · "him" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "há" for "him" ever safe?

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

Frequency check: "há" vs "him" - which ranks higher?

"há" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #88 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.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "há" 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 #50,803 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"há" and "him" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "him vs hui". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #50,803 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.