# Hello in Morse code

**Hello in Morse code is ".... . .-.. .-.. ---". It is 5 characters made of 11 dots and 5 dashes, and takes about 2.9 seconds to send at 20 words per minute.**

*By Can Türk (https://iamcanturk.dev), MorseForge.*

*Source: https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/hello/*

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## What it means

HELLO makes a poor first message and a good first exercise. It puts E, the single dot, in the same word as H and L, which sit on the deepest layer of the Morse tree — the shortest and longest characters in the alphabet, back to back. Operators greeting each other on the air do not send it at all; they send CQ.

## Letter by letter

| Character | Code | Spoken |
| --- | --- | --- |
| H | `....` | di-di-di-dit |
| E | `.` | dit |
| L | `.-..` | di-dah-di-dit |
| L | `.-..` | di-dah-di-dit |
| O | `---` | dah-dah-dah |

A space separates letters and a slash separates words.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Hello in Morse code?

Hello in Morse code is ".... . .-.. .-.. ---". HELLO makes a poor first message and a good first exercise. It puts E, the single dot, in the same word as H and L, which sit on the deepest layer of the Morse tree — the shortest and longest characters in the alphabet, back to back. Operators greeting each other on the air do not send it at all; they send CQ.

### How long does it take to send Hello in Morse code?

At 20 words per minute, Hello takes about 2.9 seconds to send. That counts its 11 dots and 5 dashes plus the silences between them, timed by the PARIS standard, in which one unit, the length of a dot, is 60 milliseconds at that speed.

## Related words: Greetings

- [Good morning](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/good-morning/)

## More

- [Every word in Morse code](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/)
- [The Morse code alphabet](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/morse-code-alphabet/)
- [Translate your own text](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/morse-code-translator/)