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HellNoun1. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment: "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit". 2. Any place of pain and turmoil: "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";. 3. (in various religions) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died". 4. A cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes". 5. (colloquial) violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin". 6. Noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Hell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | Poverty. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Hell derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there are three words so rendered: (1.) Sheol, occurring in the Old Testament sixty-five times. This word sheol is derived from a root-word meaning "to ask," "demand;" hence insatiableness (Prov. 30:15, 16). It is rendered "grave" thirty-one times (Gen. 37:35; 42:38; 44:29, 31; 1 Sam. 2:6, etc.). The Revisers have retained this rendering in the historical books with the original word in the margin, while in the poetical books they have reversed this rule. In thirty-one cases in the Authorized Version this word is rendered "hell," the place of disembodied spirits. The inhabitants of sheol are "the congregation of the dead" (Prov. 21:16). It is (a) the abode of the wicked (Num. 16:33; Job 24:19; Ps. 9:17; 31:17, etc.); (b) of the good (Ps. 16:10; 30:3; 49:15; 86:13, etc.). Sheol is described as deep (Job 11:8), dark (10:21, 22), with bars (17:16). The dead "go down" to it (Num. 16:30, 33; Ezek. 31:15, 16, 17). (2.) The Greek word hades of the New Testament has the same scope of signification as sheol of the Old Testament. It is a prison (1 Pet. 3:19), with gates and bars and locks (Matt. 16:18; Rev. 1:18), and it is downward (Matt. 11:23; Luke 10:15). The righteous and the wicked are separated. The blessed dead are in that part of hades called paradise (Luke 23:43). They are also said to be in Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22). (3.) Gehenna, in most of its occurrences in the Greek New Testament, designates the place of the lost (Matt. 23:33). The fearful nature of their condition there is described in various figurative expressions (Matt. 8:12; 13:42; 22:13; 25:30; Luke 16:24, etc.). (See HINNOM.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | If you dream of being in hell, you will fall into temptations, which will almost wreck you financially and morally. To see your friends in hell, denotes distress and burdensome cares. You will hear of the misfortune of some friend. To dream of crying in hell, denotes the powerlessness of friends to extricate you from the snares of enemies. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Hell According to Mohammedan faith, there are seven hells - (1) Jabannam, for wicked Mohammedans, all of whom will be sooner or later taken to paradise: (2) The Flamer (Lathà) for Christians; (3) The Smasber (Hutamah, for Jews; (4) The Blazer Sair for Sabians; (5) The Scorcher (Sakar, for Magians; (6) The Burner (Johim, for idolaters; and (7) The Abyss (Hawiyah, for hypocrites. Hell or Arka of the Jewish Cabalists, divided into seven lodges, one under another (Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla) - Presiding Angel. * (1) Gehennom The heat 60 times that of fire. (Here Absalom and Israelites Kushiel It "snows fire") Who break the Law (2) The Gates of Death The heat 60 times hotter than No. 1 Doeg Labatiel (3) The Shadow of Death The heat 60 times hotter than No. 2 Korah Shaftiel (4) The Pit of Corruption The heat 60 times hotter than No. 3 Jeroboam Maccathiel (5) The Mire of Clay The heat 60 times hotter than No. 4 Ahab Chutriel (6) A baddon The heat 60 times hotter than No. 5 Micah Pasiel (7) Sheol The heat 60 times hotter than No. 6, Elisha, son of Abuya, Dalkiel Or 420 times hotter than fire Sabbath - breakers, Idolators, and un- Circumcised All these presidents are under Duma, the Angel of Silence who keeps the three keys of the three gates of hell. In the Buddhist system there are 136 places of punishment after death, where the dead are sent according to their degree of demerit. (See Euphemisms.) Hell This word occurs eighteen times in the New Testament. In nine instances the Greek word is Hades; in eight instances it is Gehenna; and in one it is Tartarus. Hades: Matt. xi. 23, xvi. 18; Luke xvi. 23; Acts ii. 31; 1 Cor. xv. 55; Rev. i. 18, vi. 8, xx. 13, 14. (See Hades.) Gehenna: Matt. v. 22, 29, x. 28, xiii. 15, xviii. 9, xxiii. 15, 33; James iii. 6. (See Gehenna.) Tartarus: 2 Peter ii. 4. (See Tartaros.) Descended into hell (Creed) means the place of the dead. (Anglo-Saxon, helan, to cover or conceal, like the Greek "Hades," the abode of the dead, from the verb a-cido, not to see. In both cases it means "the unseen world" or "the world concealed from sight." The god of this nether world was called "Hades" by the Greeks, and "Hel" or "Hela" by the Scandinavians. In some counties of England to cover in with a roof is "to hell the building," and thatchers or tilers are termed "helliers." Lead apes in hell. (See Ape.) Hell (Rivers of). Classic authors tell us that the Inferno is encompassed by five rivers: Acheron, Cocytus, Styx, Phlegethon, and Lethe. Acheron from the Greek achos-reo, grief-flowing; Cocytus, from the Greek kokuo, to weep, supposed to be a flood of tears; Styx, from the Greek stugeo, to loathe; Phlegethon, from the Greek phleo to burn; and Lethê, from the Greek letle, oblivion. Five hateful rivers round Inferno run, Grief comes the first, and then the Flood of tears, Next loathsome Styx, then liquid Flame appears, Lethe comes last, or blank oblivion. E. C. B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Hungarian (fene , franc, kurva'k fasza't), Icelandic (helvíti), Norwegian (helvete), Swedish (helvete). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | HELL. A taylor's repository for his stolen goods, called cabbage: see CABBAGE. Little hell; a small dark covered passage, leading from London-wall to Bell-alley. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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For other uses of the word Hell see Hell (disambiguation)
Hell is, according to many religious beliefs about the afterlife, a place of torment, of great weeping and gnashing of teeth. The English word 'hell' comes from Old English 'Hel', meaning underworld, as well as the name of the goddess of the underworld.
In most religions' concept of hell, evildoers will suffer eternally in hell after their death or they will pay for their bad deeds in hell before reincarnations.
In monotheistic religions, hell is simply ruled by demons. In polytheistic religions, the politics of hell could be as complicated as human politics.
The Judeo-Christian term hell comes from the Hebrew word "Sheol", which technically means landfill. The confusion over what this word actually means stems from the fact that the Hebrews really didn't have a set word to describe their underworld, so when referring to it they used words they thought might describe it, thus the word Sheol.
It is interesting to note that Hebrew landfills were very unsanitary and unpleasant when compared to modern landfills; these places were filled with rotting garbage and the Hebrews would periodically burn them down, however by that point they were generally so large that they would burn for weeks or even months. In other words they were fiery mountains of garbage.
Hell, as it exists in the Western popular imagination, has its origins in Christianity. Judaism, at least initially, believed in Sheol, a shadowy existence to which all were sent indiscriminately. Sheol may have been little more than a poetic metaphor for death, not really an afterlife at all: see for example Sirach. In any case, the afterlife was much less important in ancient Judaism than it is for many Christian groups today; indeed, the same can be said for modern Judaism as well.
The Hebrew Sheol was translated in the Septuagint as 'Hades', the name for the underworld in Greek mythology. The New Testament uses this word, but it also uses the word 'Gehenna', from the valley of Ge-Hinnom, a valley near Jerusalem in which in ancient times garbage was burned. The early Christian teaching was that the damned would be burnt in the valley just as the garbage was. (It is ironic to note that the valley of Ge-Hinnom is today, far from being a garbage dump, a public park.) Punishment for the damned and reward for the saved is a constant theme of early Christianity.
Rabbinic Jewish view of Hell
Gehenna is fairly well defined in rabbinic literature. It is sometimes translated as "hell", but this doesn't effectively convey its meaning. In Judaism, Gehenna—while certainly a terribly unpleasant place—is not hell. The overwhelming majority of rabbinic thought maintains that people are not tortured in hell forever; the longest that one can be there is said to be 12 months. Some consider it a spiritual forge where the soul is purified for its eventual ascent to Gan Eden (heaven), where all imperfections are purged.
Ancient Greek views of Hell
Another source for the modern idea of 'Hell' is the Greek Tartarus, a fiery place in which evildoers were punished. Tartarus formed part of Hades in Greek mythology, but Hades also included the Elysian fields, a place for the reward of heroes (though some sources have the Elysian fields, not in the underworld, but as islands in the west), whilst most spent a shadowy existence wandering the asphodels (a flower, most likely Narcissus poeticus) fields. Like most ancient (pre-Christian) religions, the underworld was not viewed as negatively as it is in Christianity.
Hell appears in several mythologies and religions in different guises, and is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people.
Christian view of Hell
According to popular imagery connected to the Christian mythos, Hell is a place ruled by the Devil, or Satan, who is often depicted as a being who carries a pitchfork, has flaming red skin, horns on his head, and a long thin tail with a diamond shaped barb on it. Hell is often depicted as a place underground, with fires and molten rock. Demons, looking much like the Devil, eternally torment the souls of the dead. Christian theologians (or at least those who believe in the traditional Christian idea of Hell) reject this view: the popular image of the Devil has no biblical basis (it may be a Christian corruption of the god Pan), and rather than demons punishing humans, demons themselves are punished in Hell along with the humans led astray by them.
For many ancient Christians, Hell was the same "place" as Heaven: living in the presence of God and directly experiencing God's love. Whether this was experienced as pleasure or torment depended on one's disposition towards God. St. Isaac of Syria wrote in Mystic Treatises:
The present Roman Catholic view of Hell is stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by [one's] own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called 'hell'" Thus, Pope John Paul II has said (see link below), "Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy."
- ... those who find themselves in hell will be chastised by the scourge of love. How cruel and bitter this torment of love will be! For those who understand that they have sinned against love, undergo no greater suffering than those produced by the most fearful tortures. The sorrow which takes hold of the heart, which has sinned against love, is more piercing than any other pain. It is not right to say that the sinners in hell are deprived of the love of God ... But love acts in two ways, as suffering of the reproved, and as joy in the blessed!
Most Christian groups teach that Hell is eternal. Some, however, believe that Hell is only temporary, and that souls in hell cease to exist after serving their time there; this belief is called annihilationism. Others believe that after serving their time in hell souls are reconciled to God and admitted to heaven; this belief is called universalism.
The Christian Hell is different to the Sheol mentioned in Judaism. The nature of Hell is described in the New Testament in several occasions. I.e., in Matthew 3:10-12, 5:22 and 29-30, 7:29, 8:12, 22:13 and 33, 25:30 and 41-46, Luke 3:9, 12:5, 13:28, 16:19-28, and the Book of Revelation 12:9, 14:9-11, 19:20, 20:10 and 14-15, 21:8; in the Book of Revelation Hell is also mentioned as the "abyss" and "the Earth" until the Doomsday, and after the end of the world, as lakes of fire and sulphur.
The biblical descriptions of Hell tell about a place of darkness, fire, sulphur, an oven of fire, and lakes of fire and sulphur, where weeping, tears, creaking of teeth and torment are eternal for those souls that will be condemned to live there. Hell is referred to a place out of Heaven, and implies that after the end of the world the Earth (or what it becomes) will be Hell too (as well as all what it is not Heaven).
The population of Hell is described as the souls of those humans that died out of God's grace, this means in sin and without repentance (this includes all bad Christians, and all non-Christian people, never mind if they have been good or not while alive), and the Devil and his angels (demons), who will be in charge of those souls. Matthew 25:41 mentions the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. According to the Book of Revelation, after the Doomsday soul and body will be united again, and so those who were condemned to Hell will remain there in soul and flesh, tormented by an eternal fire that will never consume them.
According to Luke 16:19-28 nobody can pass from Hell to Heaven or vice versa, and fire is not the only torment, being thirst another, and more that are not described; in this biblical paragraph it is also mentioned that the souls that are in Hell can see those that are in Heaven and vice versa, but nothing is said of the sight of God; those that are in Hell can see the happiness reigning in Heaven, and those in Heaven do not feel compassion for the others in Hell.
Later Christian scholars speculated that Hell is an underground place, presumably derived from the idea of the Sheol, and referred to as the lower part of the universe under the Earth's ground (the fact that the Earth was spherical was unknown by that time).
As light and brightness were associated with God and Heaven, it is not strange that darkness was associated with Hell. Concerning the fire, some scholars speculated that the idea came from the fire consecrated to same Pagan deities like Adramelech, Moloch, etc., to whom children were sacrificed by throwing them into the flames; but other scholars, more recently, speculated that, being that Hell is considered an underground place, fire was associated with volcanic eruptions; the idea that volcanoes could be gateways to Hell was present in the mind of the ancient Romans, and later of Icelanders and other European peoples.
Mediaeval imagination added cauldrons inside which people will be "cooked" forever by demons and Christian demonology acquired a "terrifying" aspect concerning imagery of Hell.
More recently and to some theologians, the idea of an underground Hell gave place to the conception of an abstract spiritual status in an also intangible plane of existence, which is sometimes associated to a site in an unknown point of the universe or also abstract, but tradition continues referring to Hell as "down", meanwhile religion refers to it as the place of eternal punishment and torment, far of God's sight (2 Thessalonians 1:9).
A problem arose after the Protestant Reformation. To Catholicism Protestants were going to have Hell as their final destination, and vice versa to Protestant churches. As time went on this position became more tolerant by both sides.
See also
- Origin and history of the demons
- The Antichrist and the last days
Islamic view of Hell
Islam holds a belief in Hell similar in many ways to the other Abrahamic religions. In the Quran, the holy book for Muslims, the are literal and possibly metaphorical descriptions of the existence in Hell for evildoers, and Paradise for the righteous belivers in Allah (God). However, human beings are said to be liable to committing mistakes, thus, Allah forgives the sins and wipes them out if the individual is truly sincere in repentance, true to the causes and determined in intention.
For those who believed, but eventually disbelieved in God in the end, the result seems unambiguously negative. Although Allah is said to be 'the Most Merciful, the Most Kind' and forgives all sins, the great sin of unbelief is deemed unforgivable. According to the Sunnah (life and way of the Prophet Muhammad), any person who for example, commits suicide and shows no regret for one's wrongdoing, will spend an eternity in hell, re-enacting the act by which they took their own lives. Some Islamic jurists hold the interpretation that hell is not eternal but indefinite and only remains to be while the earth endures. Once the Day of Recompense passes, Hell will eventually be emptied.
Chinese and Japanese view of Hell
The structure of Hell is remarkably complicated. The ruler of Hell has to deal with politics as human rulers. They are the subjects of many folk stories and manga. Note that in many such stories, people in hell could die again but none seems to care about the seemingly contradiction.
Other religions
Although some sects of Buddhism acknowledge several Hells, which are places of punishment and discipline for evildoers, they remain temporary for inhabitants. Those with sufficiently negative karma are reborn there, where they stay until their bad karma has been burnt, whereupon they are reborn as humans or hungry ghosts.
Bahá'ís do not accept Hell as a place but rather a state of being "Heaven is nearness to me and Hell is separation from Me." – Bahá'u'llah
See also
Eschatology, damnation, purgatory, The problem of Hell
External links
- July 28, 1999 statement of Pope John Paul II, concerning the topic of Hell, http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_28071999_en.html
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The most common usage of the word Hell is to refer to the afterlife of eternal torment.Other meanings include:
See also:
- Hell or Inferno is the first book of Dante's Divine Comedy.
- Hell is a location in Michigan, United States. See Hell, Michigan.
- Hell is also a location in Norway. See Hell, Norway.
- Hell is also the site of unusual barren rock formations on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. The nearby post office of the same name is a popular location for tourists to send postcards "from Hell", complete with the postmark to prove it.
- In Norse mythology, Hell was an alternate spelling for the goddess of the underworld, Hel, see for more details.
- Hell's Angels - biker gang
- From Hell - movie
- Richard Hell - singer
- Rudolf Hell - inventor
- Hell's Kitchen - an area of Manhattan
- Oh Hell - card game
- Raising Hell - album
- Hell Awaits - album
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Hell, Michigan is a town, population 266 (83o 59' W, 42o 26' N) in southwest Michigan, in Livingston County, Michigan, near Howell Township, Michigan and the border with Washtenaw County, Michigan.For several hundred years, the low, swampy area was occupied mostly by the Potawatomi tribe. Later, in the early 19th century, it was the most unpleasant part of a trail between Lansing and Dexter (which at the time contained a major farmers market) and a point on the route taken by traders portaging between the Huron River and the Grand River.
In the late 1830s, George Reeves, a New York farmer, started several businesses in the area -- a general store, and a mill, and a distillery -- which became the core of a minor population center; by the 1840s, enough people had immigrated to make a 70-person school viable (assuming 19th century birth rates, this pegs the population somewhere close to its current level).
In 1841, as the story goes, Reeves was asked what he wanted the town to be called and responded, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." His later attempts to rechristen it Reevesville or Reeve's Mills proved futile.
Hell's main export is, appropriately, kitsch. Among other things, it has a "fully non-accredited" college, Damnation University -- DamU to alumni -- that sells half-singed diplomas, and a small post office in the back of the general store popular with irate taxpayers and recent divorcees. Also a motorcycle dealership and an ice cream parlor, which bear mentioning by virtue of being the only other businesses in town.
The zip code is 48169.
External Link
- Hell, Michigan
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Hell is a small village in Stjørdal, Norway with a population of 352. It has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name - people like to take the train there to get photographed in front of the station sign. At the old warehouse in the station area there is a sign "Gods expedition", an archaic form of the Norwegian word for cargo handling office (godsekspedisjon).A yearly blues festival, Hell Blues Festival takes place in the area around Hell each year.
The Norwegian word for hell is "helvete", and there are several places in Norway with that name as well.
External Links
- Category at ODP
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Synonyms: HellSynonyms: blaze (n), hell on earth (n), hellhole (n), infernal region (n), nether region (n), netherworld (n), perdition (n), sin (n), snake pit (n), the pit (n), the pits (n), underworld (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: Heaven (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond. |
Depth | Hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell. |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
Duty | Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do. |
Ejection | Interjection: begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you! get the hell out of here!, go about your business! be off! avaunt! aroynt! allez-vous-en! jao! va-t'en! |
Hell | Noun: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol. |
Hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies. | |
Intention | Phrase: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"; sublimi feriam sidera vertice. |
Gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box. | |
Malediction | Interjection: woe to! beshrew! ruat coelum! ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go to hell! go to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt! honi soit! parbleu! |
Neverness | Adverb: never, ne'er; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree. |
Pain | Hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond; (adversity); peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to"; (evil); miseries of human life; "unkindest cut of all". |
Velocity | Phrase: vires acquirit eundo; "I'll put a girdle about the earth in forty minutes"; "swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow"; go like a bat out of hell; tempus fugit. |
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Screenplays | Hell, I question it all the time (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) What the hell are you doing here (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) You've condemned me to Hell! (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Whatever the hell that thing is, sink it (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) | |
Lyrics | I reminised on tha stress I caused, it wuz hell (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Smashing the hell (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC) Could this be Heaven or Hell (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith) Missing u is hell and i surrender myself to u babe (Mishale; performing artist: Andru Donalds) This time isn't Hell, (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) | |
Clever | Hell has no fire escapes. (references; author: unknown) Love God more than you fear Hell. (references; author: unknown) Man who drive like hell bound to get there. (references; author: unknown) How do you get holy water? Boil the hell out of it. (references; author: unknown) WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | One Hell of a Christmas (2002) Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) Colter's Hell (1973) Hell Up in Harlem (1973) The Legend of Hell House (1973) | |
Song Titles | Hell Froze Over Today (performing artist: The Foremen) Hell Yeah (performing artist: GINUWINE) One Hell of a Woman (performing artist: Mac Davis) Hell (performing artist: Squirrel Nut Zippers) | |
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 | A scene reminiscent of the "green hell" of World War II - coral shoreline with heavy jungle vegetation growing within steps of the water. Credit: Small World. |  | In the depths of Hell Hole Canyon. Credit: Christine Maxa. |
 | The spires in Hell Hole make an eerie backdrop for a burst of fall autumn gold. Credit: Christine Maxa. |  | It doesn't have to be hell to be healthy. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The brighter side of Hell. The anti-tobacco crank jumping through smoke rings. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coming Lloyd George, [in] spite of hell and politics / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | I said parson's sermon sure did knock hell outa th' Home Brew Bunch!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hell Gate Bridge being constructed, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 'Politics is hell, Bebe!' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hell Gate Bridge, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "My cable hell" by Nathan Jones Commentary: "Cable madness." | "NYC's Hell" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "Welcome to Hell, NYC style... See more of my works at www.27cm.com." |
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Daniel Defoe | Pride the first peer and president of hell. |
Emily Dickinson | Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. |
John Milton | All hell broke loose. |
St. Bernard | Hell is full of good intentions or desires. |
St. John Chrysostom | Hell is paved with priests' skulls. |
Thomas Fuller | A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! |
Virgil | Each of us bears his own Hell. |
| If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. | |
William Tecumseh Sherman | War is hell. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell for ever |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | As long as hell and Richard likes of it. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The hell she is. |
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry 'Havoc |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I hope Hell has a particularly spiky barstool reserved for charity scammers. |
Phil McGraw | That's right. Do something. Take action. The world rewards action. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you want different, do different. |
Walter Cronkite | War is hell. And arresting people, particularly if you have made a mistake and they are innocent civilians, can be pretty tough. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Hell" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.68% of the time. "Hell" is used about 5,309 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.68% | 5,027 | 1,951 |
| Interjection | 5% | 266 | 18,071 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,309 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Hell": a snowball's chance in hell ♦ all hell broke loose ♦ all went hell ♦ bastard Operator From Hell ♦ catch hell ♦ come hell or high water ♦ descent into hell ♦ gambling hell ♦ Gates of hell ♦ get hell ♦ give smb. hell ♦ go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you! get the hell out of here! ♦ go like a bat out of hell ♦ go to hell ♦ go to hell deuce! ♦ go to hell in a handbasket ♦ have a hell of a lot of trouble ♦ have a hell of a time ♦ have the hell of a lot of trouble ♦ hell for leather ♦ hell of ♦ hell of a guy ♦ hell of a noise ♦ hell on earth ♦ hell raising ♦ Hell system ♦ hell to pay ♦ hell upon earth ♦ hell with it! ♦ in the hell ♦ just for the hell of it ♦ like hell ♦ like hell he will! ♦ pains of hell ♦ pit of hell ♦ raise hell ♦ raising hell ♦ ride hell for leather ♦ suffer hell ♦ suffer hell on earth ♦ the descent into hell ♦ the tortures of hell ♦ tired as hell ♦ to hell with it! ♦ what the hell are you doing! ♦ what the hell do you want? ♦ you'll get hell hot if. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Hell": hell-and-back, hell-bent, hell-box, hell-broth, Hell-cat, hell-disaster, Hell-diver, hell-fire, hell-for-leather, Hell-haunted, hell-hole, hell-holes, hell-hound, hell-hounds, hell-kite, hell-lit, hell-marriage, hell-of-a-fellows, hell-oh, hell-pit, hell-raiser, hell-raisers, hell-raising, hell-rooster, hell-sent, hell-touched, Hell-xenotron. | |
Ending with "Hell": ex-hell, Heaven-and-hell, immanu-hell, king-hell, linotype-hell, liquid-lunch-from-hell, rake-hell, Rossetti-hell, sex-hell, shot-to-hell, software-from-hell, what-the-hell. | |
Containing "Hell": air-hell-lair, to-hell-with-it, to-hell-with-them-all, Vision-of-hell-drug. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hell angel | 2,030 | angel hell mc | 93 |
hell | 1,793 | hell lyrics song | 88 |
hell song | 589 | hell lyrics yeah | 83 |
hell yeah | 520 | 41 hell lyrics song sum | 79 |
neighbor from hell | 335 | hell yea | 75 |
hell shirt t | 285 | hell sound | 71 |
hell gate | 181 | hell yaoi | 68 |
heaven hell | 177 | hell angel motorcycle club | 67 |
hell angle | 175 | go to hell | 62 |
from hell | 168 | 2 bat creeper hell jeepers like | 59 |
hell kitchen | 148 | here today gone to hell | 57 |
run like hell | 148 | jason goes to hell | 52 |
hell canyon | 147 | bat out of hell | 51 |
hell bell | 127 | angel diego hell san | 51 |
hell picture | 112 | etiquette hell | 51 |
highway to hell | 110 | cheat hell like run | 50 |
convent of hell | 107 | gamers hell | 49 |
hell ya | 105 | hell thumb | 49 |
cell hell in | 100 | from hell sound | 47 |
aim hell | 99 | hell house | 46 |
41 hell song sum | 46 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Hell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hel (abyss). (various references) | |
Albanian | xhehenem (Hades), telendi, skëterrë (Hades, inferno), sharrim (sawing), ndëshkim (amercement, castigation, chastisement, comeuppance, correction, discipline, infliction, pain, penalty, penitence, plague, punishment, strafe, what for), kiamet (calamity), ferr (blazes, Hades, inferno, underworld). (various references) | |
Arabic | توبيخ قاس (earful, vituperation), جهنم (abyss, gehenna, hellfire, inferno, limbo, perdition), جحيم (inferno, pandemonium), المقمرة (casino), الجحيم (abaddon, underworld). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кошче за парцали, комарджийница, вертеп (den, joint, kip, pandemonium, shebang, stew), ад (abyss, grave, inferno, pandemonium, tartarus), пъкъл (abyss), преизподня, игрален дом (casino, gaming house, policy shop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 地狱 (infernal, underworld), 地獄 (infernal, underworld). (various references) | |
Czech | peklo (Abaddon, Gehenna, hopscotch, inferno, pandemonium). (various references) | |
Danish | Hell-skrivesystemet (Hell system, Hellschreiber system), Hell-skriveapparat (Hell apparatus), magnet (magnet). (various references) | |
Dutch | hel (abyss, bright, clear, light). (various references) | |
Esperanto | infero, geheno. (various references) | |
Faeroese | helviti (abyss). (various references) | |
Farsi | سروصداراه انداختن (Holler), عالم اموات (Underworld), عالم اسفل , جهنم (Hades, Inferno), دوزخ (Inferno, Pandemonium). (various references) | |
Finnish | helvetti. (various references) | |
French | enfer. (various references) | |
German | hölle (abyss, heck, inferno, pandemonium, perdition, purgatory). (various references) | |
Greek | κόλαση (blazes, damnation, inferno). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תופת (inferno), שאול (abyss, borrowed, grave, lent, loaned, lower world, pandemonium, underworld), עזאזל (damnation), אבדון (abyss, destruction, doom, perdition, ruin), גיהנום (inferno, pandemonium, purgatory), באר שחת (grave). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pokol (bottomless pit, Gehenna, inferno, pandemonium, pit, place below, shades, tartarus). (various references) | |
Indonesian | neraka (inferno). (various references) | |
Irish | ifreann. (various references) | |
Italian | inferno (inferno, underworld). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 地獄 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヘル (Mr), ならく (eternity, hades, theatre basement), まかい (world of spirits), じごく. (various references) | |
Korean | 나락. (various references) | |
Manx | niurin (inferno, nether regions, pit, underworld), iurin. (various references) | |
Norwegian | helvete. (various references) | |
Papiamen | fiernu (abyss), fierno (abyss). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inferno (gehenna, hades, inferno, pandemonium, riffraff, underworld). (various references) | |
Romanian | infern (abyss, inferno, the bottomless pit, the shades, underworld), iad (inferno, lower world, nether world, pandemonium, the shades), abis (abysm, abyss, chasm, gulf, precipice, ravine, the bottomless pit). (various references) | |
Russian | ад (Gehenna, inferno, nether regions, nether world, netherworld). (various references) | |
Scottish | iutharn, ifrinn. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | had (hades), pakao (abyss, hades, inferno, perdition). (various references) | |
Spanish | infierno (darkness, Hades, heck, inferno, pit, underworld). (various references) | |
Sranan | didibrikondre (abyss). (various references) | |
Swedish | helvete (abyss, inferno). (various references) | |
Thai | ขุมนรก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kumarhane (casino, disorderly house, gaming house), gırgır (carpet sweeper, snoring, sweep net), felâket (affliction, bane, blight, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, distress, fatality, fate, harm, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), cehennem (blazes, gehenna, Hades, infernal, inferno, lower world, nether world, swelter, underworld), casino, berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), şamata (carrying-on, carryings on, conviviality, din, dustup, great noise, hilarity, hoo-ha, hubbub, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, riot, ripsnorter, row, shindy, uproar, whoopee), şaka (badinage, banter, chaff, drollery, fun, game, humor, humour, jest, joke, lark, monkeyshiness, pleasantry, quiz, sport, waggery, waggishness, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dowzah. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хай йому чорт, пекло (barathrum, gehenna, inferno, underworld). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mụ phù thuỷ già người đàn bà hung dữ nanh ác (hell-cat), chó ngao đồ quỷ dữ (hell-hound), cứ nhất định (hell-bent), cứ liều bằng được (hell-bent). (various references) | |
Welsh | uffern, annwn (abyss). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abyssi, abyssis, abysso, abyssos, abyssum, abyssus, baratrum, gehennae, gehennam, gehennom, inferne, inferni, inferno, infernum, infernus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hell. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 2, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Proidwn elalhsen peri thV anastasewV tou cristou oti ou kateleifqh h yuch autou eiV adou oude h sarx autou eiden diafqoran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Providens locutus est de resurrectione Christi quia neque derelictus est in inferno neque caro eius vidit corruptionem |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þa he on forðgesceafte beseah, spræc he ymb Cristes æriste þæt he ne sie forlæten on byrgene ne þæt he forrotie ne forweorðe. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He seynge afer spak of the resurreccioun of Crist, for nether he was left in helle, nether his fleisch saiy corrupcioun. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He sawe before: and spake in the resurreccion of Christ that his soule shulde not be left in hell: nether his flesse shuld se corrupcio. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 2, Verse 31 |
| Albanian | dhe, duke parashikuar këtë, foli për ringjalljen e Krishtit, duke thënë se shpirti i tij nuk do të lihej në Hades dhe se mishi i tij nuk do të shihte kalbjen. |
| Cebuano | siya nakapanglantaw nang daan ug misulti mahitungod sa pagkabanhaw ni Cristo, nga kini siya wala biyai didto sa Hades, ug nga usab ang iyang lawas wala moagi sa pagkadunot. |
| Croatian | unaprijed je vidio i navijestio uskrsnuæe Kristovo: Nije ostavljen u Podzemlju niti mu tijelo truleži ugleda. |
| Danish | talte han, forudseende, om Kristi Opstandelse, at hverken blev han ladt tilbage i Dødsriget, ej heller så hans Kød Forrådnelse. |
| Dutch | Zo heeft hij, dit voorziende, gesproken van de opstanding van Christus, dat Zijn ziel niet is verlaten in de hel, noch Zijn vlees verderving heeft gezien. |
| Finnish | niin hän edeltä nähden puhui Kristuksen ylösnousemuksesta, sanoen, ettei Kristus ollut jäävä hyljätyksi tuonelaan eikä hänen ruumiinsa näkevä katoavaisuutta. |
| French | c`est la résurrection du Christ qu`il a prévue et annoncée, en disant qu`il ne serait pas abandonné dans le séjour des morts et que sa chair ne verrait pas la corruption. |
| German | hat er's zuvor gesehen und geredet von der Auferstehung Christi, daß seine Seele nicht dem Tode gelassen ist und sein Fleisch die Verwesung nicht gesehen hat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | ia tahu pula apa yang akan dilakukan oleh Allah. Jadi ia sudah bernubuat bahwa Raja Penyelamat yang dijanjikan oleh Allah, akan hidup kembali dari kematian. Daud berkata, 'Ia tidak dibiarkan tertinggal di dalam dunia orang-orang mati; tubuh-Nya tidak akan menjadi hancur dan habis.' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka dengan pengetahuan cara nabi ia mengatakan dari hal kebangkitan Kristus, bahwa tiadalah Ia dibiarkan di dalam alam maut, atau tubuh-Nya takluk kepada kebinasaan. |
| Maori | A, i tana kite wawe i tenei, korerotia ana e ia te aranga o te Karaiti, ara kihai tona wairua i waiho i te reinga, kihai ano tona kikokiko i kite i te pirau. |
| Norwegian | så var det om Messias' opstandelse han fremsynt talte det ord at han ikke blev forlatt i dødsriket, ei heller så hans kjød tilintetgjørelse. |
| Portuguese | prevendo isto, Davi falou da ressurreição de Cristo, que a sua alma não foi deixada no hades, nem a sua carne viu a corrupção. |
| Rumanian | despre knvierea lui Hristos a proorocit wi a vorbit el, cknd a zis cq sufletul lui nu va fi lqsat kn Locuinya moryilor, wi trupul lui nu va vedea putrezirea. |
| Russian | пО РТЕЦДЕ УЛБЪБМ П ЧПУЛТЕУЕОЙЙ иТЙУФБ, ЮФП ОЕ ПУФБЧМЕОБ ДХЫБ еЗП Ч БДЕ, Й РМПФШ еЗП ОЕ ЧЙДЕМБ ФМЕОЙС. |
| Shuar | Neka asa, Túruntsain Tawit, wainkia Nútiksan, Kristu nantaktintrin aarmiayi. Kristu Túrunatniurin chicharuk Tímiayi "ni Wakaníncha Jákatniunam ikiukchatniuyi. Ayashíncha Káurtinian tsankatkashtiniuyi." |
| Swahili | Daudi aliona kabla mambo yatakayofanywa na Mungu na hivyo akasema juu ya ufufuo wa Kristo wakati aliposema: `Hakuachwa kuzimu, mwili wake haukuoza.` |
| Swedish | därför förutsåg han att Messias skulle uppstå, och talade därom och sade att Messias icke skulle lämnas åt dödsriket, och att hans kropp icke skulle se förgängelse. |
| Uma | Daud hadua nabi, pai' na'inca ami' napa to nababehi Alata'ala hi eo mpeno. Alata'ala mpobabehi janci-na hi Daud hante mosumpa, na'uli': hadua mpai' ngkai muli Daud na'ongko' jadi' magau' hewa Daud moto. Jadi', toe pai' Daud mpolowa ami' -mi katuwu' -na nculii' Magau' Topetolo', na'uli': uma-i rapelele' hi po'ohaa' tomate, pai' woto-na uma rapelele' hi rala daeo' duu' -na pope. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Hell": hellacious, hellaciously, hellbender, hellbenders, hellbent, hellbox, hellboxes, hellbroth, hellbroths, hellcat, hellcats, hellebore, hellebores, helled, hellenization, hellenizations, hellenize, hellenized, hellenizes, hellenizing, heller, helleri, helleries, helleris, hellers, hellery, hellfire, hellfires, hellgrammite, hellgrammites, hellhole, hellholes, hellhound, hellhounds, helling, hellion, hellions, hellish, hellishly, hellishness, hellishnesses, hellkite, hellkites, hello, helloed, helloes, helloing, hellos, hells, helluva. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Hell": bombshell, clamshell, cockleshell, eggshell, lampshell, nutshell, rakehell, seashell, shell, softshell, subshell, tortoiseshell, unshell. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Hell": bombshells, bushelled, bushelling, clamshells, cockleshells, echelle, echelles, eggshells, hatchelled, hatchelling, lampshells, nutshells, phellem, phellems, phelloderm, phelloderms, phellogen, phellogens, philhellene, philhellenes, philhellenic, philhellenism, philhellenisms, philhellenist, philhellenists, rakehells, rakehelly, seashells, shellac, shellack, shellacked, shellacking, shellackings, shellacks, shellacs, shellback, shellbacks, shellcracker, shellcrackers, shelled, sheller, shellers, shellfire, shellfires, shellfish, shellfisheries, shellfishery, shellfishes, shellier, shelliest, shelling. (additional references) | |
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"Hell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehl, Ghelle, halal, haylli, heeli, heelo, heill, Hekla, helal, helf, helg, heli, helk, hella, helle, helli, hellip, Helll, hellp, hellu, heln, helo, helt, heml, hesl, Heyl, hiel, hil, Hinlil, hle, Hoell, holl, hwel, Khel, Nhel, rhel, uell, whell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Hell" (pronounced he"l) |
| 2 | -e" l | bedel, befell, Bel, bell, Belle, cartel, Carvel, Cel, cell, clientele, compel, del, dell, dispel, dwell, El, Ell, Excel, expel, farewell, fell, ferrel, foretell, gazelle, gel, hotel, impel, spell, swell, Tel, tell, jell, knell, lapel, Mademoiselle, Marcel, materiel, Mel, Mell, misspell, Morel, motel, Noel, nouvelle, outsell, pastel, personnel, propel, quell, repel, resell, retell, sell, Selle, shell, smell, Snell, well, yell. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-l" | |
-1 letter: ell. | |
-2 letters: eh, el, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l" | |
+1 letter: hello, hells, shell. | |
+2 letters: fellah, hallel, helled, heller, hellos, hilled, hiller, holler, hulled, huller, lethal, shells, shelly. | |
+3 letters: allheal, bellhop, challie, chilled, chiller, echelle, fellahs, fleshly, ghillie, hallels, halloed, halloes, hazelly, helical, hellbox, hellcat, helleri, hellers, hellery, helling, hellion, hellish, helloed, helloes, helluva, helpful, hillers, hillier, hilloed, hilloes, hollaed, hollers, hollies, holloed, holloes, hullers, hulloed, hulloes, lethals, lithely, oilhole, phellem, shellac, shelled, sheller, shilled, theelol, unshell. | |
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