hir
/hɪə(ɹ)/
"hir" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hir” is uncommon English (frequency #75,042 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,042
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hir · hir · English
hir · rank #75,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,042
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH hipped
Nearest frequency peer: hipped (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hir”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- helpings
helpings
24,964 corpus weight
- Hillard
Hillard
24,962 corpus weight
- hipped
hipped
24,960 corpus weight
- hir
hir
24,959 corpus weight
- Hira
Hira
24,958 corpus weight
- Hirai
Hirai
24,957 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hir” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hir |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /hɪə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hir” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hir is uncommon English at frequency #75,042 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /hɪə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hir in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of him/his + her. The correct English form is hir, spelled H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
Etymology
Blend of him/his + her.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.