hir
/hɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
det
Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
Example Sentences
- "But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's."
- "I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online."
- "Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir."
- "T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan.""
- "Getting down to cases now, a child's learning, L, in the sixth grade will be a function of a number, say k, of variables X1 X2, X3, ... Xk representing hir (hir is an abbreviation for his or her and is pronounced here) previous education, motivation, rapport with teachers, peers' atitudes toward education, teachers' ability, and so on."
- "It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɪɹ/
- British English: /hɪə(ɹ)/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
other attested gender-neutral pronouns
Frequently Paired Words
other attested gender-neutral pronouns