# haired

> English word · Adjective · IPA /hɛəd/ · frequency rank #11,225

## Definitions
1. Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
2. Bearing some specific type of hair.

## Etymology
From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

## Easily confused with
- **hard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hard)
- **hire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hire)
- **hare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hare)
- **hired** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hired)
- **hated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hated)
- **hairy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hairy)
- **harem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-harem)
- **hiked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hiked)
- **hares** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hares)
- **Havre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-havre)
- **handed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-handed)
- **hatred** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hatred)
- **hanged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-hanged)
- **halted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-halted)
- **harmed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haired-vs-harmed)
- **hair** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hair-vs-haired)
- **hacked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hacked-vs-haired)
- **hailed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hailed-vs-haired)
- **Haines** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haines-vs-haired)
- **Hailey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hailey-vs-haired)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ahired`, `haierd`, `hairde`, `hairedd`, `hairred`, `haried`, `hhaired`, `hiared`

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