she-bear
"she-bear" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“she-bear” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).
Corpus desk
Index EN-she-bear · she-bear · English
she-bear · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | she-bear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “she-bear” in English
Rare enough to double-check
she-bear is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for she-bear, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear. The correct English form is she-bear, spelled S-H-E---B-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how she-bear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]
two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Etymology
From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.