# her vs Herat

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### her
*determiner · IPA /ˈhɜː/ · frequency rank #58*
Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).

### Herat
*name · IPA /hɛɹɑːt/ · frequency rank #49,975*
A city, the capital of Herat province, Afghanistan, dating back to Avestan times.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/her-vs-herat