Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heorshe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: heo-r-she
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

pron

Alternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.

Example Sentences

"I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression."
"Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)"
"Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm."

Etymology

From he + or + she.

Inflected Forms

they (plural)

Questions

What does heorshe mean?: Alternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.
Where does heorshe come from?: From he + or + she.

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