hervshereTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#9,857
“her” frequency rank
#6,071
“here” frequency rank
15928
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature her here
Definition adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, dela aqui

Letter map: her vs here

Shared letters muted; letters that set her and here apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
her
4 ch
here

Role in the sentence - her and here

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: her is anadjective and hereanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “her” sits inside “here”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15928, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

her is recorded at frequency rank #9,857, classified as anadj. here is at rank #6,071, tagged as anadv, pronounced /hɪɹ/.

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 15928, this pair ranks #55,784 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of her vs here

Shared letters: ehr. Private to "her": -. Private to "here": -.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hereehre · heer · herre · hhere · hree

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "her" for "here" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "her" is an adjective and "here" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "her" or "here"?
"here" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,071 in our Portuguese list, against #9,857 for "her". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "her" vs "here" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "her" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "here" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,784 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "her" and "here" 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 #55,784 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