hers
\ˈhɝz\
The verdict
“hers” is uncommon French (frequency #78,501 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,501
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Le sien, la sienne, les siens ou les siennes à elle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ˈhɝz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hers” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hers is uncommon French at frequency #78,501 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \ˈhɝz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Le sien, la sienne, les siens ou les siennes à elle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hers in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hers, spelled H-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Le sien, la sienne, les siens ou les siennes à elle.
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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Using “hers”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.