higher
high·er/ˈhaɪ.ɚ/noun, verb, adjective, adverb
higher is spelled H-I-G-H-E-R, 2 syllables: high·er. The wrong spelling people search most is higer: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Higher is a noun meaning “A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification”. The plural of higher is highers.
How many letters and syllables are in higher?
| Letters | 6: H-I-G-H-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: high·er |
| In writing | 151 times per million words; the 679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, higer, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell higher?
Higher is spelled H-I-G-H-E-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for higher in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is higher?
Higher appears 151 times per million words in written English, the 679th 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 higher?
- UK /ˈhaɪ.ə/
- US /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
- /həjːɜ(r)/
Higher has 2 syllables, split high·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-higher.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with higher
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: hire (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with higher?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as higher from its last stressed vowel (/aɪəɹ/):
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).
Forms of higher
- highers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- highering participle, present
- highered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does higher mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
ScotlandA national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
verb
- 1
To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
- 2
To ascend.
adjective
- 1
comparative form of high: more high
adverb
- 1
comparative form of high: more high
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).