her
\heːɐ̯\
The verdict
“her” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,053) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,053
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indique un mouvement en direction du locuteur
Corpus desk
Index FR-her · her · French
her · rank #14,053 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,053
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haïr
Nearest frequency peer: haïr (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « her »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Hamas
Hamas
85,950 corpus weight
- haïr
haïr
85,949 corpus weight
- her
her
85,948 corpus weight
- homophobie
homophobie
85,947 corpus weight
- illégaux
illégaux
85,946 corpus weight
- impossibles
impossibles
85,945 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « her » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | her |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \heːɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « her »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for her is neighbouring look-alikes ("hi", "hp", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \heːɐ̯\. Frequency #14,053 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Indique un mouvement en direction du locuteur".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for her, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hi", "hp", "Hs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is her, spelled H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Indique un mouvement en direction du locuteur
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how her appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kommen Sie her.
Wo kommst du her?
Synonyms
Antonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "her", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).