heita
/ˈheɪt(a)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets.""
- "‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group."
- "‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?)."
Usage
Inflected Forms
eh ta (alternative)
eita (alternative)
heit (alternative)
heitha (alternative)
heito (alternative)
het (alternative)
heyitha (alternative)
heyta (alternative)
huit (alternative)