here's
/hɪɹz/contraction
here's is spelled H-E-R-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 81 times per million words in written English, the 1,302nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a contraction, here's means “Contraction of here + is” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in here's?
| Letters | 5: H-E-R-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 81 times per million words; the 1,302nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is here's?
Here's appears 81 times per million words in written English, the 1,302nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce here's?
- US /hɪɹz/
- UK /hɪə(ɹ)z/
Here's has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-here's.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with here's?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as here's from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹz/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does here's mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
contraction
- 1
Contraction of here + is.
- 2
nonstandardContraction of here + are.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Here's in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense here is:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | voici |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.