hinovshisWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: hino is a noun, his is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#4,238
“hino” frequency rank
#8,209
“his” frequency rank
12447
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hino his
Definition canto de louvor, adoração ou invocação (à divindade) pronome do caso possessivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, dele.

Letter map: hino vs his

Shared letters muted; letters that set hino and his apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. hino runs 4 letters (CVCV) against his's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
hino
3 ch
his

Part-of-speech tell for hino / his

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hino is anoun and hisapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12447, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hino is recorded at frequency rank #4,238, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈi.nu/. his is at rank #8,209, 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 12447, this pair ranks #60,133 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hino vs his

Shared letters: hi. Private to "hino": no. Private to "his": s.

"hino" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "his" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hino ← hhino · hinno · hion · hnio · ihno

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hino" and "his" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hino" is a noun and "his" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "hino" or "his" show up more?
"hino" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,238 in our Portuguese list, against #8,209 for "his". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "hino" vs "his" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hino" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "his" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #60,133 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hino" and "his" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "his 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 #60,133 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