hide vs him, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#36,940
“hide” frequency rank: #19,748
“him” frequency rank: 56688
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	hide	him
Definition	esconderijo	caso objetivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, ele, o, lhe

Letter map: hide vs him

Shared letters muted; letters that set hide and him apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

hide

3 ch

him

Grammar separator: hide vs him

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hide is anoun and himapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56688, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hide is recorded at frequency rank #36,940, classified as anoun, pronounced /haɪd/. 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 56688, this pair ranks #9,812 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hide vs him

Shared letters: hi. Private to "hide": de. Private to "him": m.

"hide" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "him" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

hide ← hdie · hhide · hidde · hied · ihde

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hide" and "him" be used interchangeably?

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

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

"him" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,748 in our Portuguese list, against #36,940 for "hide". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hide" and "him".

Full dictionary entry for "hide" 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 #9,812 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"hide" and "him" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hebe vs hide". 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 #9,812 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.