há vs hit, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“há” and “hit” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#88
“há” frequency rank: #5,308
“hit” frequency rank: 5396
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	há	hit
Definition	terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo haver	atingir

Letter map: há vs hit

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

2 ch

há

3 ch

hit

Pair insight - há / hit

há and hit are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5396, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

há is recorded at frequency rank #88, classified as averb. hit is at rank #5,308, tagged as averb.

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 5396, this pair ranks #69,221 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of há vs hit

Shared letters: h. Private to "há": á. Private to "hit": it.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "há" and "hit" be used interchangeably?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Which is more common, "há" or "hit"?

"há" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #88 in our Portuguese list, against #5,308 for "hit". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "há" and "hit".

Full dictionary entry for "há" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #69,221 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"há" and "hit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hit vs hui". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #69,221 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.