he vs hui, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#7,293
“he” frequency rank: #41,055
“hui” frequency rank: 48348
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	he	hui
Definition	caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural, eles, elas	hoje

Letter map: he vs hui

Shared letters muted; letters that set he and hui apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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Part-of-speech tell for he / hui

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: he is apronoun and huianadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48348, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

he is recorded at frequency rank #7,293, classified as apron. hui is at rank #41,055, 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 48348, this pair ranks #16,825 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of he vs hui

Shared letters: h. Private to "he": e. Private to "hui": iu.

"he" · 2 letters · shape CV · "hui" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

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

"he" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,293 in our Portuguese list, against #41,055 for "hui". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "he" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #16,825 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"he" and "hui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hui vs Hut". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #16,825 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.