hervshornTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#9,857
“her” frequency rank
#25,004
“horn” frequency rank
34861
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature her horn
Definition adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, dela chifre

Letter map: her vs horn

Shared letters muted; letters that set her and horn apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. her runs 3 letters (CVC) against horn's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
her
4 ch
horn

Part-of-speech tell for her / horn

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: her is anadjective and hornanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34861, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

her is recorded at frequency rank #9,857, classified as anadj. horn is at rank #25,004, tagged as anoun, pronounced /hɔɹn/.

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 34861, this pair ranks #32,299 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of her vs horn

Shared letters: hr. Private to "her": e. Private to "horn": no.

"her" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "horn" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • horn ← hhorn · honr · hornn · horrn · hron · ohrn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "her" for "horn" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "her" is an adjective and "horn" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "her" or "horn" show up more?
"her" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,857 in our Portuguese list, against #25,004 for "horn". 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 "horn" 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 "horn" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #32,299 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "her" and "horn" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "homen vs horn". 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 #32,299 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