her's
"her-s" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“her's” is uncommon English (frequency #63,681 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,681
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of hers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-her-s · her's · English
her's · rank #63,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,681
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH herringbone
Nearest frequency peer: herringbone (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “her's”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Heald
Heald
36,325 corpus weight
- Heim
Heim
36,323 corpus weight
- Hems
Hems
36,322 corpus weight
- her's
her's
36,320 corpus weight
- herringbone
herringbone
36,319 corpus weight
- Honshu
Honshu
36,316 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “her's” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | her's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “her's” in English
Rare enough to double-check
her's is uncommon English at frequency #63,681 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of hers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for her's, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hires, equivalent to her + -'s (possessive marker). The correct English form is her's, spelled H-E-R-'-S.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of hers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how her's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But who could resist the seductions of a grace like her’s?
[…] as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be her’s, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.
Etymology
From Middle English hires, equivalent to her + -'s (possessive marker).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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