he vs hoje, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“he” is a pronoun and “hoje” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,293
“he” frequency rank: #117
“hoje” frequency rank: 7410
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	he	hoje
Definition	caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural, eles, elas	o dia atual, aquele em que se está

Letter map: he vs hoje

Shared letters muted; letters that set he and hoje apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch

4 ch

hoje

Part-of-speech tell for he / hoje

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: he is apronoun and hojeanadverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7410, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

he is recorded at frequency rank #7,293, classified as apron. hoje is at rank #117, tagged as anadv.

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 7410, this pair ranks #66,728 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of he vs hoje

Shared letters: eh. Private to "he": -. Private to "hoje": jo.

"he" · 2 letters · shape CV · "hoje" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

hoje ← hhoje · hjoe · hoej · hojje · ohje

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "he" and "hoje" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "he" is a pronoun and "hoje" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "he" or "hoje" show up more?

"hoje" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #117 in our Portuguese list, against #7,293 for "he". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "he" and "hoje". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "he" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hoje" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #66,728 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"he" and "hoje" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "he vs hui". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #66,728 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.