Which to use
“Hari” is a name and “her” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #22,990
- “Hari” frequency rank
- #58
- “her” frequency rank
- 23048
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Hari | her |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A name or epithet given commonly to Vishnu, but also to Indra and Yama. | Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc). |
Letter map: Hari vs her
Shared letters muted; letters that set Hari and her apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Role in the sentence - Hari and her
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hari is aname and heradeterminer. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23048, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Hari is recorded at frequency rank #22,990, classified as aname. her is at rank #58, tagged as adet, pronounced /ˈhɜː/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 23048, this pair ranks #412,094 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of Hari vs her
Shared letters: hr. Private to "Hari": ai. Private to "her": e.
"Hari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "her" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- Hari ← ahri · harri · hhari · hrai
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've compared "Hari" and "her". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "Hari" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "her" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #412,094 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Hari" and "her" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hari vs Hoare". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #412,094 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.