harivsherWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: hari is a noun, her is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hari” is a noun and “her” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,378
“hari” frequency rank
#14,053
“her” frequency rank
56431
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hari her
Definition Fil. Indique un mouvement en direction du locuteur

Letter map: hari vs her

Shared letters muted; letters that set hari and her apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
hari
3 ch
her

Role in the sentence - hari and her

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hari is anoun and heranadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56431, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hari is recorded at frequency rank #42,378, classified as anoun. her is at rank #14,053, tagged as anadv, pronounced \heːɐ̯\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 56431, this pair ranks #121,136 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hari vs her

Shared letters: hr. Private to "hari": ai. Private to "her": e.

"hari" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "her" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hariahri · hair · harri · hhari · hrai

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hari" for "her" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hari" is a noun and "her" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "hari" or "her" show up more?
"her" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,053 in our French list, against #42,378 for "hari". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "hari" and "her". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hari" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "her" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #121,136 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hari" and "her" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hari vs hash". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #121,136 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list