HenrivsherTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#16,082
“Henri” frequency rank
#9,857
“her” frequency rank
25939
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Henri her
Definition Henrique, Henrico adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, dela

Letter map: Henri vs her

Shared letters muted; letters that set Henri and her apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Henri runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against her's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Henri
3 ch
her

Part-of-speech tell for Henri / her

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Henri is anoun and heranadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25939, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Henri is recorded at frequency rank #16,082, classified as anoun, pronounced /ɑ̃.ʁi/.. her is at rank #9,857, tagged as anadj.

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 25939, this pair ranks #43,277 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Henri vs her

Shared letters: ehr. Private to "Henri": in. Private to "her": -.

"Henri" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "her" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Henri ← ehnri · henir · hennri · henrri · herni · hhenri · hneri

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Henri" and "her" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Henri" is a noun and "her" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "Henri" or "her" show up more?
"her" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,857 in our Portuguese list, against #16,082 for "Henri". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Henri" 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 #43,277 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Henri" and "her" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "haber vs her". 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 #43,277 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list