HarivsherWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Hari is a name, her is a determiner, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

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.

4 ch
Hari
3 ch
her

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

  • Hariahri · harri · hhari · hrai

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Hari" for "her" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hari" is a name and "her" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Hari" or "her" show up more?
"her" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #58 in our English list, against #22,990 for "Hari". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list