# her vs Herod

> 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).

### Herod
*name · IPA /ˈhɛɹəd/ · frequency rank #31,201*
The name of any of a number of members of the Herodian dynasty who ruled in the Roman province of Judea, most notably Herod the Great, who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, or Herod Antipas, his son, who met Jesus during his Passion.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/her-vs-herod