# her vs Hu

> 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).

### Hu
*name · IPA /hu/ · frequency rank #13,362*
A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/her-vs-hu