theirs
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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theirs is aFrenchpron. It means: Le leur, la leur, les leurs; pronom possessif de la troisième personne du pluriel. Pronounced \ðɛɚz\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | theirs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | \ðɛɚz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for theirs is 6 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ðɛɚz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for theirs in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is theirs, spelled T-H-E-I-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le leur, la leur, les leurs; pronom possessif de la troisième personne du pluriel.
- 2Le sien, la sienne; pronom possessif neutre de la troisième personne du singulier.
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