HebevshojeTell them apart

Quick tell: Hebe is a noun, hoje is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#37,351
“Hebe” frequency rank
#117
“hoje” frequency rank
37468
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hebe hoje
Definition deusa grega da juventude, filha de Zeus (equivalente ao romano Júpiter) e Hera (romano Juno), copeira do Olimpo que fornecia néctar e ambrosia aos deuses, foi dada em casamento a Héracles (Hércules) quando este é feito deus o dia atual, aquele em que se está

Letter map: Hebe vs hoje

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hebe and hoje apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Hebe and hoje follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Hebe
4 ch
hoje

Part-of-speech tell for Hebe / hoje

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hebe is anoun and hojeanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37468, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hebe is recorded at frequency rank #37,351, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɛ.bi/. 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 37468, this pair ranks #29,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Hebe vs hoje

Shared letters: eh. Private to "Hebe": b. Private to "hoje": jo.

"Hebe" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hoje" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Hebe ← ehbe · hbee · hebbe · heeb · hhebe
  • hoje ← hhoje · hjoe · hoej · hojje · ohje

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Hebe" and "hoje" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hebe" is a noun and "hoje" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "Hebe" or "hoje" show up more?
"hoje" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #117 in our Portuguese list, against #37,351 for "Hebe". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Hebe" 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 #29,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Hebe" and "hoje" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "haber vs Hebe". 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 #29,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list