Which to use
“hea” is a noun and “her” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #44,248
- “hea” frequency rank
- #58
- “her” frequency rank
- 44306
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hea | her |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Alternative spelling of hea'. | Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc). |
Letter map: hea vs her
Shared letters muted; letters that set hea and her apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for hea / her
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hea is anoun and heradeterminer. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “hea” becomes r in “her”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hea is recorded at frequency rank #44,248, classified as anoun. 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 44306, this pair ranks #231,852 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of hea vs her
Shared letters: eh. Private to "hea": a. Private to "her": r.
"hea" · 3 letters · shape CVV · "her" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "hea" and "her" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "hea" vs "her" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "hea" and "her". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "hea" 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 #231,852 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "hea" and "her" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hea vs Herat". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #231,852 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.