the hell
/ðəˈhɛl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.10 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Expletive used for emphasis, typically after an interrogative term or relative pronoun.
intj
Ellipsis of what the hell, an exclamation indicating surprise or dismay.
Example Sentences
- "A: I can run faster than a horse. B: The hell you can!"
- "'You stay here, sir,' O'Bannion instructed. 'The hell I will,' Feeney said."
- "What the hell was that?"
- "I thought we were all sisters and brothers I guess I am not accepted. I sure wish the hell I stayed in the closet."
- "D'Allesandro was particularly adept at that kind of flash-forward-then-backward-all-the-hell-over-the-place kind of narrative and like a tourist following a well-seasoned guide, you never lose track of the line."
- "“Whoever the hell is running the place now has made a terrible mess of it,” he said... “Not in the sense that it looks different, or that it isn't pretty much permanently full. It's just that the food as gone utterly down the khazi.”"