hir
\hɪɹ\
The verdict
“hir” is uncommon French (frequency #79,382 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a determiner. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,382
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appartenant à iel, à ael, à al. Adjectif possessif neutre à la troisième personne du singulier coordonné avec his et her.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hir · hir · French
hir · rank #79,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,382
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hexagones
Nearest frequency peer: hexagones (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hedwige
Hedwige
20,622 corpus weight
- Helms
Helms
20,621 corpus weight
- hexagones
hexagones
20,620 corpus weight
- hir
hir
20,619 corpus weight
- histamine
histamine
20,618 corpus weight
- historial
historial
20,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \hɪɹ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hir is uncommon French at frequency #79,382 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as adeterminer, transcribed \hɪɹ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appartenant à iel, à ael, à al. Adjectif possessif neutre à la troisième personne du singulier coordonné avec his et her.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hir, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hir, spelled H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Appartenant à iel, à ael, à al. Adjectif possessif neutre à la troisième personne du singulier coordonné avec his et her.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.
I don’t know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.
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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