how to pronounce hey

/ˈhɛɪ/

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the above transcription of hey is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

hey is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of hey in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… zero waste living but hey I was on a …”

meaning of hey

Hey is a greeting.

hey frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word hey occurs in english on average 68.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hey can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hey can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;