her
The verdict
“her” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,857) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,857
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, dela
Corpus desk
Index PT-her · her · Portuguese
her · rank #9,857 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,857
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH help
Nearest frequency peer: help (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “her”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fazendeiro
fazendeiro
90,153 corpus weight
- help
help
90,145 corpus weight
- her
her
90,144 corpus weight
- holandês
holandês
90,142 corpus weight
- humilhação
humilhação
90,140 corpus weight
- inesperado
inesperado
90,135 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “her” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “her”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for her is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "hit", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #9,857 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, dela".
No generated misspelling entries exist for her in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "hit", "hey", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is her, spelled H-E-R.
Definition
- 1adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, dela
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how her appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What have you done to her things?
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).