hi

Other forms of hi

plural

his·

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.

Questions about hi

What does hi mean?

hi means "an expression of greeting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hi?

hi has 1 syllable: hi. In IPA it is /ˈhaɪ/.

What is another word for hi?

Close synonyms include hello, hullo, howdy, how-do-you-do, Hawaii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hi a common word?

hi is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hi?

2 words rhyme with hi. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.