noun
A katakana noun meaning “hell,” most likely encountered in titles, names, games, fantasy settings, or direct renderings of foreign text. For ordinary religious or figurative Japanese, 地獄 is usually the natural word.
このゲームには「ヘル」という最高難度がある。
This game has a highest difficulty level called “Hell.”
英語の hell は、カタカナで「ヘル」と書かれることがある。
The English word “hell” is sometimes written in katakana as ヘル.