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say it: hel
hell is a noun meaning "any place of pain and turmoil". It is pronounced /ˈhɛl/ — hel. It carries 5 recorded senses.
“go to blazes”
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
“Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell”
“a demon from the depths of the pit”
“Hell is paved with good intentions”
Christianity
(religion) the world of the dead
“No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth”
religion
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hell come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.